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Durham v. United States, 214 F.2d 862 (D.C. Cir. 1954), [1] is a criminal case articulating what became known as the Durham rule for juries to find a defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity: "an accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or mental defect."
A Durham rule, product test, or product defect rule is a rule in a criminal case by which a jury may determine a defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity because a criminal act was the product of a mental disease. Examples in which such rules were articulated in common law include State v. Pike (1870) and Durham v. United States (1954).
Durham v. United States can refer to: Durham v. United States (1971) Durham v. United States (1954) This page was last edited on 7 ...
1954 – Durham v. United States, 214 F.2d 862 (D.C. Cir. 1954), is a criminal case articulating what became known as the Durham rule for juries to find a defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity, that "an accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or mental defect". [4]
This led to the creation of the Frye standard, which states scientific evidence is only admissible when it has prominent standing within the scientific community. [13] The 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, [14] was the first where the Supreme Court of the United States referenced expert opinions by psychologists. [15]
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The settlements mark an end to a decades-long case that goes back to Darryl Howard’s 1995 double murder and arson conviction. Howard spent nearly 24 years of his 80-year sentence behind bars ...