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By GEORGE BOWLES
l>t*»nocn»l S|wrial %rit«*r Paul Trible, Republican candidate for U.S. Senator unveiled an interesting piece of proposed legislation the other day. In a speech at the formal opening of his state campaign headquarters in Richmond, Mr. Trible outlined his plan to introduce a bill in Congress which would give courts and juries a new verdict option in federal cases where the accused asserts mental illness as a defense.
Under present law, if the individual’s mental illness is proved, the court’s only recourse is to find him or her “not guilty by reason of insanity.”
Mr. Trible’s bill would establish a verdict of “guilty, but mentally ill."
A person receiving such a finding would be ordered by the court to undergo psychiatric treatment. Upon being cured of the mental illness, that person would then serve whatever sentence might have been imposed by the court for the crime charged.
The GOP candidate says he is introducing the measure because of public outrage over the not guilty verdict in the case of John Hinckley, the man who shot President Reagan in the full view of witnesses and a national television audience.
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