Case ID: f2d_453/html/0409-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David Alan DE ARMAN, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 71-2215.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Dec. 15, 1971.
    Rehearing Denied Jan. 7, 1972.
    Morris Futlick, Fresno, Cal., for defendant-appellant.
    Dwayne Keyes, U. S. Atty., William R. Allen, Asst. U. S. Atty., Fresno, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.
    Before CHAMBERS, JERTBERG and KOELSCH, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

The judgment of conviction in this selective service (mutilating and destroying a draft card) case is affirmed.

An insanity defense was presented. A psychiatrist testified for the defendant and none testified for the government. But here on cross-examination the expert was badly shaken. So we believe that a counter-expert was not required here. Cf. United States v. Ingman, 9 Cir., 426 F.2d 973; and Mims v. United States, 5 Cir., 375 F.2d 135.

Also, to some extent the testimony of the parents, lay persons, buttresses up the government’s position.