All males referred to the Michigan Center for Forensic Psychiatry for competency evaluation in 1969 were grouped according to race and differences on demographic variables. Criminal charges, diagnosis, competency finding, and disposition were studied. A subsample of seventy blacks and seventy whites was analyzed for characteristics associated with MMPI administration and for differences in MMPI profile. The results are consistent with previous literature and indicate a tendency to clinically overestimate psychopathology in blacks though there is no supporting evidence for a difference in level of pathology in terms of the more objective MMPI measure. The profound effects of this overestimation on disposition are discussed and a number of solutions are proposed.