UNITED STATES v. ALDEN

Nos. 83-2275, 83-2350.

767 F.2d 314 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Terrance Karl ALDEN and Leslie Phillips, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 21, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph Friedericks, Asst. U.S. Atty. (Frederick J. Hess, U.S. Atty.), East St. Louis, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Giles Franklin, Chicago, Ill., R. Thomas Day, Asst. Federal Public Defender, St. Louis, Mo., for defendants-appellants.

Before POSNER and FLAUM, Circuit Judges, and NICHOLS, Senior Circuit Judge.


FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

This is a consolidated appeal following a jury trial in which the defendants were found guilty of attempting to escape from a federal penitentiary. The defendants claim that they were improperly denied the psychiatric assistance that they needed to prepare insanity defenses, and that the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury on their insanity defenses. We disagree, and we affirm the defendants' convictions.

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