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2.660 documents for guilty but mentally ill states

- Insanity Defense
... a criminal defendant should not be found guilty due to the defendant's insanity. The theory behind... and is currently the rule in a majority of states with regard to the insanity defense (sometimes com... procedures, or by adopting a "Guilty but Mentally Ill" defense. In addition, the federal courts shif...
- Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
- Criminal Law
- Clark v. Arizona, 548 U. S. (2006)
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. Syllabus . CLARK v . ARIZONA . CERTIORARI TO TH... in legal shorthand as the mens rea , or guilty mind). We hold that there is no violation of due p... with an alternative of "guilty but mentally ill." 19 Finally, four States have no affirmative...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- United States v. Comstock, 560 U. S. (2010)
... court to order the civil commitment of a mentally ill, sexually dangerous federal prisoner beyond th...Three of the five had previously pleaded guilty in federal court to possession of child pornograph...
- U.S. Supreme Court

- Gun-Buyer Background Checks Missing Data ; Ohio Among States Underreporting Drug Abusers, Mentally Ill.
Ohio screens out mentally ill people who try to buy firearms, but the state isn't reporting all known drug abusers to a national system that could prevent them from buying guns, a first-of-its- kind survey of 50 states found. Mayors Against Illegal Guns said in its report "Fatal Gaps" that federal agencies and states in some cases ignore federal law and fail to report records about potentially dangerous people to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS.

...Ferryman had been ruled not guilty by reason of insanity in another shooting at polic...
- Dayton Daily News
- November 28, 2011
- Warren Lee Hill, Jr. v. Carl Humphrey, (11th Cir. 2011)
... IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS. ...unsuccessfully alleged that he is mentally retarded and ineligible for the death penalty. Hil... doubt that the defendant is guilty of the crime charged and is mentally retard...
- Federal Circuits
- Executing those who do not kill: a categorical approach to proportional sentencing.
... non-triggermen accomplices, the mentally retarded, and juvenile offenders. . Over twenty ye... of the death penalty schemes in all fifty states as they apply to felony-murder non-triggermen, the...(61) . A jury found defendant Enmund guilty of two counts of first-degree murder under a felon...
- American Criminal Law Review
- Vol. 48 Nbr. 3, June 2011
- To love the babe that milks me: infanticide and reconceiving the mother.
... existence of infanticide (5) in the United States reflects the extent to which women are not free to... have amounted to murder, she shall be guilty of felony, to wit of infanticide, and may for such... prove insanity, findings of guilty but mentally ill, postpartum psychosis as a defense, and the di...
- Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
- Vol. 14 Nbr. 2, June 2005
- Implications of the Sell Decision for Treatment Administration
...In Sell v. United States (2003), the U. S. Supreme Court significantly rest...As such, judges may refer mentally ill individuals for competency restoration treatme..., potential consequences of being found guilty, courtroom procedures, etc. He suggested that disr...
- Journal of Psychiatry & Law
- Vol. 37 Nbr. 4, December 2009
- Indiana v. Edwards, 554 U.S. (2008)
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES . . Syllabus . . INDIANA v . EDWARDS . . CER... himself and to change his pleas from not guilty to guilty, Godinez provides no answer here becau... defendant whom a state court found mentally competent to stand trial if represented by counsel...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- The constitutionality of social cost.
...States and Laboratories for Experimentation of Constituti... the range of punishments for those found guilty of a crime. (14) The right of habeas corpus ensure... possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms i...
- Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- Vol. 34 Nbr. 3, June 2011