The Insanity Defense in Operation

Authors

Daniel D. Pugh, Washington University in St. Louis

Publication Title

Washington University Law Quarterly

Abstract

The purpose of this Article is to describe the problems of the insanity defense and criminal commitment as they appear to a psychiatrist in a hospital for the criminally insane. Viewed from this vantage point, the terrain seems to look quite different from the way it appeared to the Court of Appeals in United States v. Brawner.

Recommended Citation

Daniel D. Pugh, The Insanity Defense in Operation, 1973 Wash. U. L. Q. 087 (1973).
Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol1973/iss1/7