When Emma Lazarus invited the tired and the poor to this country it is certain that she did not mean to include the defendant, Mikhail Plaksin, a violent and homicidal inmate of the Leningrad Psychiatric Hospital.
On November 7, 1980, approximately five months after his arrival on our shores, Mikhail Plaksin appeared before me and entered a plea of "not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect", pursuant to CPL 220...
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