Clinical and Forensic Psychiatry
Jennifer Bundrick, MD is a board certified forensic psychiatrist who works as a remote readiness for release evaluator for the Colorado Mental Health Health Hospital in Pueblo (CMHHIP), performing readiness for release assessments. She is licensed in Colorado, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Dr. Bundrick is a faculty member of the University of Colorado Denver Medical School where she has taught and supervised students, residents, and fellows as an associate program director for the forensic psychiatry fellowship training program from 2019 through 2021. She remains on faculty as a senior instructor. She spent five years as a clinical psychiatrist at the Colorado Department of Corrections before transitioning to her current position with CMHHIP. The Tulane School of Medicine appointed Dr. Bundrick as an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences for the 2023 to 2024 academic year. Dr. Bundrick became a Certified Evaluator for Mississippi State Hospital Forensic Services in November 2023.
Dr. Bundrick is involved in both criminal and civil forensic evaluations. This includes but is not limited to competency to stand trial, mental condition evaluations, sanity evaluations, juvenile transfer/reverse transfer hearings, fitness for duty, risk assessment, sexual harassment, workplace harassment, guardianship, testamentary capacity, asylum evaluations, relief from disability (gun rights restoration), and independent psychiatric evaluations. Cases are only accepted through an attorney or attorney administrator.
Dr. Bundrick relocated her physical practice to Louisiana in March 2023, but she is still conducting remote (televideo) forensic evaluations throughout Colorado and Mississippi. Forensic services are now available for Louisiana either in person or remote. Please contact Dr. Bundrick if you wish to discuss a case.
Contact
➤ LOCATION
2285 Benton Road, Suite D201
Bossier City, LA 71111
☎ CONTACT
Jennifer.Bundrick@state.co.us
Phone: (720) 507-8125
Areas of Practice
Competency to proceed
In order for a criminal defendant to be competent to proceed in Colorado, one must not have a mental or developmental disability that prevents him/her from having a factual or rational understanding of the proceedings against him/her OR prevents him/her from having a sufficient present ability to consult with his/her attorney with a reasonable degree of rational understanding in order to assist in his/her defense.
Fitness for duty
The forensic psychiatric evaluation of fitness for duty involves an assessment that one is mentally capable of performing their job safely and effectively. If one is not presently fit for duty, recommendations for treatment and plans for a re-evaluation may be proposed.
Mental condition
A criminal defendant may suffer from a mental illness or developmental disability that may not rise to the level of legal insanity, but still plays a mitigating role in the events that occurred at the time of the crimes.
Guardianship
The court may appoint a guardian if, by clear and convincing evidence, the respondent is an incapacitated person and their identified needs cannot be met by a less restrictive means, including the use of appropriate and reasonably available technological assistance. An incapacitated person is defined as an individual who is “unable to effectively receive or evaluate information or both or make or communicate decisions to such an extent that he/she lacks the ability to satisfy essential requirements for physical health, safety, or self-care, even with appropriate and reasonably available technological assistance.
Sanity
Two of three conditions are necessary for an individual to be found “not accountable.” First, one must have a mental disease at the time of the crime or crimes. Then, one of two other conditions is necessary for an insanity defense. Either one must be so diseased or defective in mind at the time of the commission of the act as to be incapable of distinguishing right from wrong OR that this condition of mind caused by mental disease or defect prevented the person from forming a culpable mental state that is an essential element of a crime charged.
juvenile transfer/reverse transfer hearings
Juveniles in Colorado who commit certain level felonies may have their case automatically placed in adult court, or the prosecution may file a request for the case to be transferred to adult court. In these circumstances, juveniles are allowed a hearing in which to present evidence for why their case should be kept within the juvenile justice system.
