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"Bill disputes standard for retardation," is from today's Florida Times-Union.  It's written by A bill sponsored by two Georgia legislator-lawyers would make it easier for defendants, including condemned Waycross triple murderer Billy Daniel Raulerson, to use the defense of guilty but mentally retarded in criminal cases. Sens. Preston Smith, R-Rome, and Seth Harp, R-Midland, have introduced legislation to lower Georgia's legal standard for mental retardation. Their bill is before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is led by Smith as chairman and Harp as vice chairman. Their bill would lower the burden of proof to "a preponderance of the evidence" to show a person is "guilty but mentally retarded...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 06, 2009 (boomark / email).