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Insanity Plea - Defense Attorneys' Views

NCJ Number
90127
Journal
Journal of Psychiatry and Law Volume: 8 Issue: 4 Dated: (Winter 1980) Pages: 413-441
Author(s)
R A Pasewark; P L Craig
Date Published
1980
Length
29 pages
Annotation
Groups of Wyoming attorneys who had entered or not entered the insanity plea on behalf of clients were interviewed to determine their beliefs about the insanity plea, bifurcation of trial procedures, reasons for entering the plea in specific cases, and their satisfaction with the outcome of making the plea. (Publisher abstract)

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