Editing Insanity defense (section)

===Withdrawal or refusal of defense===
Several cases have ruled that persons found not guilty by reason of insanity may not withdraw the defense in a [[habeas]] petition to pursue an alternative, although there have been exceptions in other rulings.{{Citation needed|date=December 2015}} In [[Colorado v. Connelly]], 700 A.2d 694 (Conn. App. Ct. 1997), the petitioner who had originally been found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed for ten years to the jurisdiction of a Psychiatric Security Review Board, filed a [[pro se]] writ of ''[[habeas corpus]]'' and the court vacated his insanity acquittal. He was granted a new trial and found guilty of the original charges, receiving a prison sentence of 40 years.<ref>{{cite journal
 |year        = 2005
 |page        = 126
 |author      = Nwokike, Jerome
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 |title       = Federal Insanity Acquittees
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In the [[landmark case]] of ''[[Frendak v. United States]]'' in 1979, the court ruled that the insanity defense cannot be imposed upon an unwilling defendant if an intelligent defendant voluntarily wishes to forgo the defense.<ref>{{cite book
|author=Irving B. Weiner
|year=2003
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jk8-b9AwmJgC&q=frendak+v+united+states&pg=PA363
|title=Handbook of Psychology
|publisher=Wiley
|page=363
|isbn=978-0-471-17669-5
|access-date=2008-01-01
|author-link=Irving B. Weiner
}}
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