Perpetrators of felonies often claim ‘amnesia’

  • May 22, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO — Many defendants charged with a felony said they could not remember the crime for which they were tried, according to new study results presented here.

In 1968, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that amnesia at the time of a crime did not per se render a defendant incompetent to stand trial (Wilson v. United States).

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