Government of the Virgin Islands v. Downey

How courts have described this case

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• finding of sanity warranted based on lay testimony and weakness in psychiatric testimony
• \rule that proof that mental illness was the cause of a criminal act entitled the accused to an acquittal . . . is in force in the Territory of the Virgin Islands\
• “rule that proof that mental illness was the cause of a criminal act entitled the accused to an acquittal . . . is in force in the Territory of the Virgin Islands”
• the fact that the government failed to produce expert testimony to substantiate its position of sanity does not mean that it has failed to meet its burden

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).