Legal Opinion
Harman v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 3, 1998No. 95-C0-1589PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REID, Associate Judge.
This case presents the issue as to whether a person who is acquitted of a crime by reason of insanity may be conditionally released from St. Elizabeths Hospital before he is paroled on a concurrent criminal sentence. The trial court granted appellant’s motion for a conditional release but required, inter alia, that the Parole Board grant him parole from his criminal sentence prior to his actual release. We affirm.
FACTUAL SUMMARY
In 1974, appellant Charles R. Harman was convicted of the July 30, 1973 murder of Diane J. Zilenski. After a bifurcated jury trial, he was found…
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