Limiting the Insanity Defense: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Criminal Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session, on S. 818, S. 1106, S. 1558, S. 1995, S. 2572, S. 2658, and S. 2669, June 24, 30, and July 14, 1982

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Página 352 - Equal protection does not require that all persons be dealt with identically, but it does require that a distinction made have some relevance to the purpose for which the classification is made.
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