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Re: [DL] What to do with Loonies



I don't know when the exact phrasing came about, but I do know that they
did occasionally throw the "criminally insane" into asylums.  More often
than not, though, they probably got hanged or tossed in prison with
everyone else.

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:20:39 -0500 "Heivilin, Jim" <banzai@missouri.edu>
writes:
> I'm sure Steve Long or one of the others here with legal expertise 
> can correct me but something tickles the back of my brain saying that 
> this defense wasn't legitimized (or perhaps more commonly used) until
the 
> 50's or 60's.  

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