Abstract
Professor Perlin offers a comprehensive examination of recent United States Supreme Court decisions concerning the insanity defense in criminal cases. Because the members of the Court share society's uncertainty about mental disabilities and the role of psychiatry in the criminal justice process, the Court has failed to make a definitive judgment regarding mentally disabled criminal defendant. Understanding the present law in such cases depends on understanding the reactions of individual justices and the common and disparate elements within the cases decided on this issue.
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29 Ariz. L. Rev. 1 (1987)
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