George Lee Mims, Sr. v. United States

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• concluding, in a prosecution for attempted bank robbery, that the district court committed plain error in instructing the jury that the evidence showed an attempt as a matter of law
• explaining that “questions of the credibility and weight of expert opinion testimony are for the trier of fact,” and “such testimony is ordinarily not conclusive even where it is uncontradicted”
• significant in upholding disregard of expert testimony from psychiatrist who relied solely on defendant's statements, was [sic] absence of any history of mental illness
• significant in upholding disregard of expert testimony from psychiatrist who relied solely on defendant’s statements, was absence of any history of mental illness
• “An instruction deciding a material fact issue as a matter of law adversely to the accused is regarded as a partial instructed verdict of guilty [that is] prohibited.”
• “[T]he prosecution usually runs some risk of discharging its burden of proof when it attempts to rebut testimony of experts on the sanity question without offering like testimony.”

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