CHIEF Justice Burger, concurring in the judgment. This is a capital case in which the Court is asked to decide whether a State may refuse an indigent defendant “any opportunity whatsoever” to obtain psychiatric evidence for the preparation and presentation of a claim of insanity by way of defense when the defendant’s legal sanity at the time of the offense was “seriously in issue.” The fac…
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