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H.R. 6717 (97th)

A bill to amend chapter 227 of title 18, United States Code, to provide for a sentence of guilty but mentally ill.

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Introduced

24 June 1982

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Subcommittee Hearings Held.

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Summary

Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize a verdict of "guilty but mentally ill" even if such illness would not constitute legal insanity. Permits the court to impose on a defendant found guilty but mentally ill any sentence which the court can impose on a defendant convicted of such offense. Allows treatment of the defendant for mental illness during the term of sentence.

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