Commonwealth v. Laliberty

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• defendant, who had no memory of the crime, compared his state of mind to “hallucinating” and “floating”
• defendant remembered walking on driveway, felt like he was “floating” and “hallucinating,” and had no memory of his conduct after entering victims’ premises
• question concerning defendant’s ability to appreciate the criminality of his conduct properly excluded where defendant’s expert witness previously testified that the defendant had no mental disease or defect at the time of the crime
• defendant did not remember crime and felt like he was “floating” and “hallucinating”
• “experts experienced in the study and treatment of the mentally ill may testify fully as to the nature and extent of impairment of defendants’ mental faculties as well as their observations or other bases for their conclusions”
• eighty year old victims were stabbed and their bodies mutilated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).