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High Court Rejects Appeal Over Sanity Defense
High Court Rejects Appeal Over Sanity Defense
High Court Rejects Appeal Over Sanity Defense
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is refusing to consider whether a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. The justices on Monday rejected an appeal from convicted killer John Joseph Delling of Idaho, one of four states that bar defendants from claiming that they were legally insane, or unable to appreciate that what they did was wrong... Read Mo