United States v. Brawner

United States v. Brawner, 471 F.2d 969 (1972), is a criminal case in which the Durham rule for determining a defendant was not guilty by reason of insanity was abandoned.[1][2]:634 It proposed a rule that was adopted as the American Law Institute Model Penal Code rule (ALI rule).[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Insanity, Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 735-40 (1983); Abraham Goldstein
  2. Criminal Law - Cases and Materials, 7th ed. 2012, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; John Kaplan, Robert Weisberg, Guyora Binder, ISBN 978-1-4548-0698-1,


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