The following major criminal case was tried by Harry F. Bosen, Jr. in 2006. Mr. Bosen was invited to present the following report at the International Conference on Law and Mental Health in June of 2007 in Padua, Italy.  Following Mr. Bosen’s presentation, three experts (a psychiatrist and psychologists) presented psychiatric and related issues raised in this case. The case was featured in articles published by the American Bar Association (Mental & Physical Disability Law Reporter, Vol. 30, No. 2, March-April 2006), The Virginia Lawyers Weekly, The Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, and has been evaluated and discussed in various psychological and psychiatric publications. Its import and impact on the issues of false vs. recovered memory, mental retardation, and false confession have been significant. It is an example of legal tenacity and inquisitiveness that resulted in preventing a completely innocent, but borderline mentally retarded, man from being imprisoned for up to life for a heinous crime to which he confessed, but which he did not commit and which was proven by the evidence in court to have never have actually happened.

Read the complete trial report here:  Havens Trial Report.