Winfred Overholser, Superintendent, St. Elizabeths Hospital v. John D. Leach

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• insanity acquittees are an “exceptional class of people” who are “treated by Congress in a different fashion from persons who have somewhat similar mental conditions, but who have not committed offenses or obtained verdicts of not guilty by reason of insanity at criminal trials”

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