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Court rejects right to insanity defense
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has let stand the murder conviction of a paranoid and delusional Idaho man who was denied the opportunity to mount an insanity defense.
Three justices dissented, arguing that the court should incorporate the long-standing insanity defense into the Constitution.
Soon after John Hinckley Jr. was acquitted of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan by reason of insanity in 1982, Idaho, Utah, Kansas and Montana abolished the insanity defense from their criminal laws.
Joseph Delling was a “paranoid schizophrenic” who shot and killed two of his friends because he believed they were “trying to steal his powers,” according to prosecutors.
Delling had carefully planned the murders, and prosecutors successfully argued he had the intent to commit murder, even if he did not understand why it was wrong. Idaho law says “mental condition shall not be a defense to any charge of criminal conduct.”
Delling was sentenced to life in prison, and the state Supreme Court upheld his conviction and sentence last year.
Stanford law professor Jeffrey Fisher appealed Delling’s case to the Supreme Court, contending that an insanity defense is required under the Constitution, either as an aspect of “due process of law” or through the ban on “cruel and unusual punishment.”
But the court turned down Delling’s petition Monday, over dissents by Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor.
Zags up to 12th; Harris honored
One day after winning the Old Spice Classic, Gonzaga University got the attention of the national pollsters, and forward Elias Harris the attention of the West Coast Conference.
The Bulldogs, who ran their record to 6-0, are ranked 12th in the Associated Press and USA Today/ESPN polls, while Harris was tabbed the WCC Player of the Week.
Harris, a 6-foot-8, 240-pound senior from Speyer, Germany, scored a season-high 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds – the 23rd double-double of his career – against Davidson College in leading the Bulldogs to their second Old Spice Classic Championship. The first came in 2008.
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In brief: From Wire Reports:
Court rejects right to insanity defense
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has let stand the murder conviction of a paranoid and delusional Idaho man who was denied the opportunity to mount an insanity defense.
Three justices dissented, arguing that the court should incorporate the long-standing insanity defense into the Constitution.
Soon after John Hinckley Jr. was acquitted of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan by reason of insanity in 1982, Idaho, Utah, Kansas and Montana abolished the insanity defense from their criminal laws.
Joseph Delling was a “paranoid schizophrenic” who shot and killed two of his friends because he believed they were “trying to steal his powers,” according to prosecutors.
Delling had carefully planned the murders, and prosecutors successfully argued he had the intent to commit murder, even if he did not understand why it was wrong. Idaho law says “mental condition shall not be a defense to any charge of criminal conduct.”
Delling was sentenced to life in prison, and the state Supreme Court upheld his conviction and sentence last year.
Stanford law professor Jeffrey Fisher appealed Delling’s case to the Supreme Court, contending that an insanity defense is required under the Constitution, either as an aspect of “due process of law” or through the ban on “cruel and unusual punishment.”
But the court turned down Delling’s petition Monday, over dissents by Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor.
Zags up to 12th; Harris honored
One day after winning the Old Spice Classic, Gonzaga University got the attention of the national pollsters, and forward Elias Harris the attention of the West Coast Conference.
The Bulldogs, who ran their record to 6-0, are ranked 12th in the Associated Press and USA Today/ESPN polls, while Harris was tabbed the WCC Player of the Week.
Harris, a 6-foot-8, 240-pound senior from Speyer, Germany, scored a season-high 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds – the 23rd double-double of his career – against Davidson College in leading the Bulldogs to their second Old Spice Classic Championship. The first came in 2008.
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from The Wenatchee World
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| ROLL ON COLUMBIA: The Columbia, shown anchored at Wenatchee, was one of the steamboats that plied the Columbia River until rail service was inaugurated up river in 1914. Its load of wheat, gathered on its river trip, is being replaced by other cargo, unloaded from Great Northern freight cars on the other side of the loading dock. |
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