- Bernard L. Diamond
:"This article is about the courtroom psychiatrist, for the Victoria cross recipient see
Bernard Diamond (VC) ."Bernard L. Diamond M.D. (1912-1990) was a Professor of law and psychiatry at the
University of California, Berkeley . He is primarily known for his contribution to what is known asforensic psychiatry . He was an expert witness for the defense in many well known trials, most notably the trial ofSirhan Sirhan , the murderer ofRobert Kennedy . The defense based much of their case on Diamond's testimony that Sirhan was suffering fromdiminished capacity at the time that he fired the deadly shots.Due to his significant place in the Sirhan Sirhan trial, he figures prominently into a number of conspiracy theories regarding Robert Kennedy.
External links
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1633341&dopt=Abstract Description of Diamond's approach to Forensic Psychiatry]
* [http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/~ucalhist/archives_exhibits/in_memoriam/catalog/diamond_bernard.html UC Berkeley memorium page dedicated to Dr. Bernard Diamond]Further reading
* Kaiser, Robert Blair. "R.F.K. Must Die!": A History of the Robert Kennedy Assassination and Its Aftermath". New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, Inc. 1970.
* Turner, William V., and John G. Christian. "The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: A Searching Look at the Conspiracy and Cover-up 1968-1978". New York: Random House, 1978.
* Diamond, Bernard L. "The Psychiatrist in the Courtroom: Selected Papers of Bernard L. Diamond, M.D.". Analytic Press, 1994
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