Abstract
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Foucha v. Louisiana is at first blush undesirable, since it requires the release of all recovered insanity acquittees, regardless of their current dangerousness. However, Foucha holds that a state's interest in criminally confining a citizen is independent of its interest in civilly confining that citizen. Because maintaining the independence of these interests is necessary to preserve the integrity of both criminal and civil confinement systems, Foucha is indeed a good decision.
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36 Ariz. L. Rev. 223 (1994)
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