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UF expert critiques Kentucky’s ‘guilty but mentally ill’ verdict law

A University of Florida scholar argues in the Courier Journal that Kentucky’s newly passed Logan’s Law, inspired by the Logan Tipton murder case, fails to deliver on its promise of meaningful reform for defendants with mental illness. The piece highlights how Kentucky juries have long struggled with confusing legal distinctions between insanity and mental illness, at times producing logically inconsistent split verdicts in the same case.

Sources: UF News