Legal Opinion
Milner v. Apfel
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 30, 1998No. 97-3156PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The named plaintiffs in this class action, Milner and Johnson, applied for and were granted social security disability benefits because of their insanity. Later the two were prosecuted in an Illinois state court for murders which they had committed, were acquitted by reason of their insanity, and were ordered confined indefinitely (up to the limit of the maximum sentences they might have received had they been convicted, 730 ILCS 5/5 — 2—4) in an Illinois state mental hospital, where they remain today, supported at the expense of the Illinois taxpayer. (If they are ever…
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