Skip to main content
Clark v. Arizona: Affirming Arizona's Narrow Approach to Mental Disease Evidence

Abstract

Arizona, through its narrow insanity test and rule prohibiting the use of evidence of mental disease or defect to negate mens rea, risks punishing the blameless. In Clark v. Arizona, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed whether those rules infringe on constitutional principles. In a 5-4 decision, the Court held that neither Arizona's insanity test, nor its exclusion of evidence to negate mens rea, violates due process.

How to Cite

48 Ariz. L. Rev. 1155 (2006)

Downloads

Download PDF

10

Views

5

Downloads

Share

Authors

Jennifer Gibbons

Downloads

Issue

Publication details

Licence

All rights reserved

File Checksums (MD5)

  • PDF: 03c43efcf1522f0fd66e81a30358b4c4