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UNITED STATES v. CHANDLER

Nos. 9829, 9954.

393 F.2d 920 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Rosalind Edith CHANDLER, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Frederick Freeman LEISTER, Jr., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 4, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No. 9829:

Stanley E. Sacks, Norfolk, Va. (Sacks, Sacks & Kendall, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellant.

C. V. Spratley, Jr., U. S. Atty., and James A. Oast, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., for appellee.

No. 9954:

D. Reece Williams, III, Columbia, S. C. (Court-appointed counsel), for appellant.

Thomas P. Curran, Asst. U. S. Atty. (Thomas J. Kenney, U. S. Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and SOBELOFF, BOREMAN, BRYAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.

HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:

En banc hearings were separately held in two cases in order to consider fully the appropriateness of the standards of mental responsibility employed in determining the guilt of defendants charged with crime. In the one case, the Court applied the M'Naghten — irresistible impulse test. In the other, alternative findings were made within the American Law Institute's recommended formulation and in terms of the M'Naghten and irresistible...

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