Wilkes v. United States

*881TERRY, Associate Judge:

Appellant Wilkes was convicted of armed second-degree murder and related offenses.1 At trial he raised an insanity defense and relied primarily- on the expert testimony of a psychiatrist. To impeach that testimony, the government cross-examined the psychiatrist about two statements which the police had taken from Wilkes in violation of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966). Later, in rebuttal, the government introduced the statements through the testimony of two police officers. The government also presented three experts of its own, two…