Criminal – Murder – Insanity Defense – Malingering

By Deborah Elkins
Published: May 26, 2008

At defendant’s trial for strangling then decapitating his aunt, the trial court did not err in admitting into evidence a letter found in defendant’s personal effects in his jail cell, which he shared with no one else, that detailed plans to assert that demons had inspired him to commit the murder; the Court of Appeals ...

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