A bill before the Kentucky General Assembly would change the state’s insanity defense law, and some legal professionals have ...
CHESAPEAKE, Va., Dec. 10 -- The buildup had been coming for weeks. But the moment when a psychiatrist declared that sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo was insane came and went Wednesday with hardly a stir.
The insanity defense is the single most controversial legal doctrine relating to the mentally ill. Lawyers have forgotten the intent of the Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGRI) defense: There is a ...