You may believe that whether a person is found not guilty due to insanity depends on the courts, on the doctors, or even just on the money they paid their lawyer. It doesn’t. It depends on what you ...
No, not the insanity of law. Although, admittedly, if you’ve been locked within its grasp, the inverse of the notion posited in the title may seem equally apt. But the subject here is insanity as ...
A longstanding principle of Anglo-American law is that a defendant shouldn’t be held criminally responsible for his behavior if mental illness made it impossible for him to tell right from wrong. Yet ...
The time is overdue to reassess how we use and define the insanity defense (NGRI) in our present-day legal system. Medical professionals should determine mental illness, diagnosis, and symptomatology ...
FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY, most U.S. courts have recognized a balanced definition of legal insanity. Last week, the Supreme Court rejected it. In an opinion by Justice David H. Souter, who is usually ...
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Jurors in the Colorado movie theater shooting trial must decide whether James Holmes met the state’s legal definition of insanity when he opened fire on a movie theater in the ...
Thirty-five years after shooting President Ronald Reagan, John W. Hinckley Jr. is a free man, having been released from a mental institution by a federal judge who concluded that Hinckley no longer ...
(WXYZ) — Ethan Crumbley, the 15-year-old accused gunman in the deadliest K-12 campus shooting in the U.S. since 2018, will seek an insanity defense according to a ...
No, not the insanity of law. Although, admittedly, if you’ve been locked within its grasp, the inverse of the notion posited in the title may seem equally apt. But the subject here is insanity as ...
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