Legal Opinion
United States v. Arthur Hansen
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 4, 1983No. 803, Docket 81-1335PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:
This appeal from a conviction in a criminal case, now before us on a petition for rehearing, poses unusual aspects of the always troubling matter of the insanity defense. Arthur Hansen appeals from a judgment of the District Court for the District of Vermont (Albert D. Coffrin, Judge) convicting him, after a bench trial, of two counts of federal firearms violations. Count I charged Hansen with falsely denying that he was a mental patient at the time he purchased a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(a)(6), (d)(4), 924(a) (1976), and Count II charged him with…
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