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Reflections on Current Proposals To Abolish or Reform the Insanity Defense

NCJ Number
93057
Journal
American Journal of Law and Medicine Volume: 8 Issue: 3 Dated: (Fall 1982) Pages: 271-281
Author(s)
P Arenella
Date Published
1982
Length
14 pages
Annotation
In addition to provoking public and scholarly debate, the recent acquittal of John W. Hinckley, Jr. has prompted the Ninety-Seventh Congress to consider various bills that would abolish or reform the federal insanity defense.
Abstract
An unedited version is presented of Professor Arenella's testimony concerning these bills given before the House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Criminal Justice on August 12, 1982. Footnotes are given. A bibliography and a summary of proposed insanity defense bills are appended. (Author abstract modified)

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