Supreme Court· 5/18/1981
Berry v. Louisiana
Citations
- 451 U.S. 1010
- 101 S. Ct. 2347
- 49 U.S.L.W. 3864
- 68 L. Ed. 2d 863
- 1981 U.S. LEXIS 2179
How courts have described this case
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- concluding that Fed. R. Crim. P. 12.2(c) encompasses order that defendant be examined by a government mental health expert to enable the government to respond to defense expert who examined defendant with respect to her Battered Wife Syndrome
- reasoning that although the defendant did not give a timely notice under Fed. R. Crim. P. 12.2(b), the government “had early and sufficient notice of the defendant’s intention to rely on evidence of Battered Wife Syndrome” (BWS
- framing the issue as one involving “a mental incapacity defense other than insanity.”
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Judges: Brennan, Certiorari, Marshall
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