The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law | 2019
Softening the Insanity Defense
Abstract
In United States v. DeRusse , 859 F.3d 1232 (10th Cir. 2017), the government appealed the sentencing decision of the District Court for the District of Kansas, arguing that the sentence imposed on Joseph DeRusse, a man who struggled with mental illness, was substantively unreasonable in its downward