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PUBLIC LAW 91-358-JULY 29, 1970

"(c) Any person sentenced under subsection (a)(2) of this section may be released on parole in accordance with the Act of July 15, 1932 (chapter 2 of title 24 of the District of Columbia Code), at any time after having served the minimum sentence imposed under that subsection. " (d)(1) Chapter 402 of title 18 of the United States Code (Federal Youth Corrections Act) shall not apply with respect to any person sentenced under paragraph (2) of subsection (a). "(2) The execution or imposition of any term of imprisonment imposed under paragraph (2) of subsection (a) may not be suspended and probation may not be granted. "(e) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as reducing any sentence otherwise imposed or authorized to be imposed. "(f) No conviction with respect to which a person has been pardoned on the ground of innocence shall be taken into account in applying this section." (b) Section 13 of such Act is amended by striking out "This" and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Except as provided in section 2 and section 14(b) of this Act, this".

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RESISTING ARREST

SEC. 206. Subsection (a) of section 432 of the Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia (D.C. Code, sec. 22-505(a)) is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following: "It is neither justifiable nor excusable cause for a person to use force to resist an arrest when such arrest is made by an individual he has reason to believe is a law enforcement officer, whether or not such arrest is lawful." INSANE CRIMINALS

SEC. 207. Section 927 of the Act of March 3, 1901 (D.C. Code, sec. 24-301), is amended— (1) by striking out " (a) Whenever a person is arrested" and all that follows down through "is mentally incompetent" in the first sentence of subsection (a) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: " (a) If it appears to a court having jurisdiction of— "(1) a person arrested or indicted for, or charged by information with, an offense, or " (2) a child subject to a transfer motion in the Family Division of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia pursuant to section 16-2307 of the District of Columbia Code, that, from the court's own observations or from prima facie evidence STibmitted to it and prior to the imposition of sentence, the expiration of any period of probation, or the hearing on the transfer motion, as the case may be, such person or child (hereafter in this subsection and subsection (b) referred to as the 'accused') is of unsoimd mind or is mentally incompetent"; (2) by striking out the period at the end of the second sentence of subsection (a) and inserting in lieu thereof "or to participate in transfer proceedings."; (3) by inserting after "stand trial" in the third sentence of subsection (a) "or to participate in transfer proceedings";

69 Stat. 609; 81 Stat. 735.

Ante, p. 527.

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