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PEOPLE v. SKINNER

Docket No. Crim. 23783.

39 Cal.3d 765 (1985)

704 P.2d 752

217 Cal. Rptr. 685

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JESSE SKINNER, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

September 16, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Charles M. Sevilla, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Cleary & Sevilla for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Norman H. Sokolow, Beverly K. Falk and Howard J. Schwab, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Christopher N. Heard and Terry L. White as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

GRODIN, J.

For over a century prior to the decision in People v. Drew (1978) 22 Cal.3d 333 [149 Cal.Rptr. 275, 583 P.2d 1318], California courts framed this state's definition of insanity, as a defense in criminal cases, upon the two-pronged test adopted by the House of Lords in M'Naghten's Case...

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