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Criminal Law Keyed to Ohlin
Clark v. Arizona
Citation:
548 U.S. 735 (2006)Facts
On June 21, 2000, police responded too complaints that a truck was blaring loud music and circling a residential block. When the officer located the truck, the officer turned on the emergency lights and siren of his marked patrol car, which prompted the defendant the to pull over. An officer got out of the patrol car and the defendant shot and killed him.
The defendant was charged with first degree murder. He asserted the insanity defense, arguing that his undisputed paranoid schizophrenia at the time of the incident proved that he did not have the intent to shoot a law enforcement officer or knowledge that he was doing so, as required by statue. The trial court stated that he could not rely on evidence bearing on insanity to dispute the mens rea. He was convicted. He appealed, arguing his due process rights were violated by excluding evidence of his mental illness to refute the mens rea element.
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