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Abstract: 

Seriously mentally ill, very dangerous, or both? A defendant, while incarcerated in prison on a state offense, solicits a fellow inmate’s help in hiring a hitman to kill his mother and stepfather so he could collect on his mother’s life-insurance policy. Counsel later seeks to determine whether the convicted defendant’s mental illness requires treatment in a facility other than prison.

Keywords: U.S.A. v. Silicani; murder-for-hire; hospital commitment

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