Legal Opinion
United States v. Pohlot, Stephen
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 25, 1987No. 86-1222PublishedCited by 140 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Circuit Judge.
This bizarre case requires us to determine what, if any, evidence of a criminal defendant’s mental abnormality is admissible to prove the defendant’s lack of specific intent to commit an offense, following the passage of the Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1984, Pub.L. No. 98-473, Title II, § 402(a), 98 Stat. 2057, § 20, recodified at 18 U.S.C. § 17.
The government contends that such evidence is never admissible to negate specific intent because the Act restricts all such evidence to the jury’s consideration of a defendant’s legal sanity or insanity. We…
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