Montana v. Egelhoff, No. 95-566 (U.S. Supreme Court) (518 U.S. 37; 116 S.Ct. 2013) (June 13, 1996) (Justice Scalia)
In this case the Supreme Court was faced with the issue of the admissibility of voluntary intoxication evidence under Montana’s “deliberate homicide” statute. The opinion was issued by a four-person plurality, a concurring opinion and dissenters authoring three dissenting opinions.
Montana had a law that said a defendant's intoxicated condition ...
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