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STATE v. FLATTUM

No. 83-1142-CR.

118 Wis.2d 108 (1984)

346 N.W.2d 787

STATE of Wisconsin, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Bernard Charles FLATTUM, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided February 21, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant the cause was submitted on the briefs of Ruth S. Downs, assistant state public defender.

For the respondent the cause was submitted on the brief of Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general, and David J. Becker, assistant attorney general.

Before Foley, P.J., Dean and Cane, JJ.

CANE, J.

Bernard Flattum appeals a judgment convicting him of first-degree murder in the strangulation and knifing death of Margaret Wink. The sole issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in excluding psychiatric opinion testimony that a person with Flatum's psychiatric and alcohol abuse profile would not be able to form the specific intent to commit first-degree murder.

Flattum contends that the testimony was necessary to show his state of mind at...

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