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· 11/17/1980

McQueen v. Stephenson

Citations

  • 449 U.S. 996
  • 101 S. Ct. 536
  • 49 U.S.L.W. 3372
  • 66 L. Ed. 2d 294
  • 1980 U.S. LEXIS 4025

How courts have described this case

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  • rejecting this reasoning in Brown and Waite and holding that confinement of an insanity acquittee under the D.C.Code is not based on any punitive considerations
  • rejecting this reasoning in Brown and Waite and holding that confinement of an insanity acquittee under the D.C.Code is not based on any punitive considerations
  • ipse dixit assertion that presumption of continuing dangerousness and mental illness \is both reasonable and valid.\
  • ipse dixit assertion that presumption of continuing dangerousness and mental illness “is both reasonable and valid.”

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