Maragh v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• “soundest of jurisprudential considerations compel appellate courts not to shirk their responsibility independently to apply important constitutional standards” and such “responsibility cannot be delegated to the trier of fact”
• while not claiming insanity at commission of the murders, defendant argued in vain that mental retardation rendered him incapable of forming specific intent for aggravated burglary of the murder victims’ home
• murder of two children in an apartment defendants intended to burglarize