People v. Ritsema

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when required by statute, a defendant cannot waive a jury instruction on the guilty but mentally ill verdict
• noting that an instruction on guilty but mentally ill is appropriate only when an instruction on insanity is warranted by the evidence
• GBMI verdict must be submitted because statute mandates it and it cannot be waived by defendant
• GBMI verdict must be submitted because statute mandates it and it cannot be waived by defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).