Reform of the Federal Insanity Defense

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Excerpt from Reform of the Federal Insanity Defense: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session on Reform of the Federal Insanity Defense, March 16 and 17, April 21, May 12 and 17 1983 Second, in jurisdictions using the ali Model Penal Code test, which has the two prongs, the cognitive prong and the volitional prong, the defendant should have the burden of proving by a pre ponderance of the evidence his or her claim of insanity. The third policy adopted in February 1983 by the aba house of delegates opposes the enactment of any statute which would sup plant or supplement the verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity with an alternative verdict of guilty but mentally ill. Now, I would like to comment briefly on the bills which are being considered by this committee, and apply the above three poli cies to those bills. Mr. Conyers. We could save some time by just considering Mr. Gekas' and Mr. Conyers' bills. That would help things incredibly. General hodson. I believe I can do it in a very summary order, if you will, because our three policies hit at all of the bills in one aspect or another. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.