"Colorado's statutory scheme regarding the affirmative defense of insanity, and the introduction of any 'mental condition' evidence at trial or sentencing, is unconstitutional in many individual respects, " they wrote in a 60-page motion and brief filed Thursday.
For this reason, we joined you in strongly supporting the Fiscal Year 1996 Defense Authorization Bill and its statutory requirement that all the United States be protected against missile threats by the year 2003.
It is particularly striking that neither the House nor Senate Armed Services Committees have been asked to consider the implications of the repeal of the relevant statutory provision, Section 709 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Authorization Act of 1975.