Legal Opinion
United States v. Long
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 20, 2009No. 07-31131PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIENER, Circuit Judge:
At the heart of this appeal lies the question whether the district court erred reversibly in denying Defendanb-Appellant Stephen Michael Long his requested insanity instruction to the jury. In our de novo review of this purely legal question, we must at all times keep as frontlets before our eyes the overarching core distinction of this appeal: It is not a garden-variety fact issue of sufficiency of the evidence to support a jury’s finding on insanity; rather, it is the legal issue whether the district court, as gatekeeper and not as factfinder, should have granted the…
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