Legal Opinion
United States v. Donald Lee Sennett
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 26, 1974No. 74-1193PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TONE, Circuit Judge.
Defendant Donald Lee Sennett was convicted of bank robbery and sentenced under Section 5010(b) of the Youth Corrections Act, 18 U.S.C. § 5010(b). At the trial, his only defense was insanity. He contends that the giving of an instruction referring to a presumption of sanity and argument based on that instruction created prejudicial error, that other trial errors occurred, and that refusal to disclose the presen-tence report was also error.
The defendant, while 18 years old and a freshman at Illinois State University, robbed the People’s Bank of Lexington, Illinois, of about…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- James L. Otney v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1965
- United States v. GlasserCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1940
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3Cited by18 opinions
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