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U.S. v. READ

No. 17-10439.

918 F.3d 712 (2019)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jonathan Lee READ, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 14, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davina T. Chen (argued), Glendale, California, for Defendant-Appellant.

Peter S. Kozinets (argued), Assistant United States Attorney; Krissa M. Lanham , Deputy Appellate Chief; Elizabeth A. Strange , First Assistant United States Attorney, District of Arizona; United States Attorney's Office Phoenix, Arizona; for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before: Michael Daly Hawkins, Milan D. Smith, Jr., and Andrew D. Hurwitz, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

We address a question of first impression: whether a criminal defendant has the Sixth Amendment right to demand that counsel not present an insanity defense. We hold that McCoy v. Louisiana, ___ U.S. ____, 138 S.Ct. 1500, 200 L.Ed.2d 821 (2018), requires under...

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