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Friday, March 22, 1996 | return to: international
Court backs killer’s life prison sentence
by JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's top court has rejected a request to reduce the sentence of an Israeli imprisoned for gunning down Pa, An attorney for Ami Popper had argued that his client's sentence should be lessened on the grounds of temporary insanity. But th
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Popper's attorney, Zion Amir, argued that at the time of the shooting, his client, then 21, was suffering from post-traumatic stress because he had been molested by an Arab when he was 13 years old, two weeks before his Bar Mitzvah.
But psychiatrists who examined Popper soon after the killings determined him to be fit for trial.
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