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People v. Ramsey | 422 Mich. 500, 375 N.W.2d 297 (1985)
In nineteen eighty two, John Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity of attempting to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. Then, many states followed Michigan and permitted another verdict for those claiming the insanity defense: guilty but mentally ill. This verdict allowed the fact finder to acknowledge an illness but also put the defendant in jail. Michigan’s high court decided the verdict’s constitutionality in People versus Ramsey.
Bruce Ramsey stabbed his wife to death while saying die, demon, die. After police apprehended him, hospital psychiatrists diagnosed Ramsey as acutely psychotic.
Ramsey was charged with murder. After a bench trial, the judge found Ramsey guilty of second degree murder, but mentally ill. Similarly, Gary Boyd was charged with armed robbery and was found guilty but mentally ill.
Both Ramsey and Boyd appealed, arguing that their guilty but mentally ill verdicts violated their due process rights under the U S Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment. The Michigan Supreme Court heard Ramsey and Boyd’s cases and issued one decision that addressed both.
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