Guilty But Mentally Ill: The Ethical Dilemma Of Mental Illness As A Tool Of The Prosecution

• Main Author: Johansen, Lauren G.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Duke University School of Law 2015
• Subjects: Law; Middle Ground; Alaska law review; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/alr/vol32/iss1/2; https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1489&context=alr

While other jurisdictions use guilty but mentally ill as a compromise verdict to fill the gap between guilty by reason of insanity and a guilty verdict after an unsuccessful insanity defense, Alaska has transformed the status into a prosecutorial tool to keep mentally ill defendants incarcerated for...