U.S. v. BROWN

No. 563, Docket 89-1377.

899 F.2d 189 (1990)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Theodore Lawrence BROWN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 27, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geoffrey W. Crawford (O'Neill and Crawford, Burlington, Vt., on the brief), for defendant-appellant.

Charles A. Caruso, Asst. U.S. Atty., Rutland, Vt. (George J. Terwilliger, III, U.S. Atty., John-Claude Charbonneau, Asst. U.S. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.

Before NEWMAN and WINTER, Circuit Judges, and TENNEY, District Judge.


JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

The issue on this appeal is whether insanity is a defense to a violation of probation. Theodore Lawrence Brown, a federal prisoner, appeals from a July 25, 1989, order of the District Court for the District of Vermont (Albert W. Coffrin, Judge) revoking his probation after Brown admitted to violating two of its conditions. At the revocation hearing, the District Court prohibited Brown from raising the defense of insanity, though the Court...

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