Court Opinion

ID: 9453388
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 18:11:35.635355+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:38.086070
License: Public Domain

ELY, Circuit Judge
(dissenting):
I share the minority view, expressed by Judge HAMLEY, that our court should have here taken the opportunity to abandon the outdated test of Sauer. I keenly regret that we have not done so.
I do not now concur in the whole of my Brother HAMLEY’S dissenting opinion, for the time may come, very soon indeed, when the force of the avalanch-ing medico-legal criticism and repudiation of our existing rule can no longer be resisted. Until that time, it would seem preferable that I express no opinion as to whether the A.L.I. test, excellent as it is, fully comports with the ideal that none should be punished for an act which he has committed solely because of a deranging mental affliction, whether disease or defect, for which he himself is not responsible.