The insanity defense, a bedrock principle of American criminal justice, is suddenly in peril. Aberrant laws in Kansas and four other states have decreed that a defendant can be guilty even if ...
The definition of insanity, as Albert Einstein once famously put it, is to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last week ...
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 ...
Analysis The Insanity Toll In their Trial Practice column, Robert S. Kelner and Gail S. Kelner discuss basic concepts with respect to tolling statutes of limitations for "insanity", how the term ...
At the beginning of the year, two major trials featuring the insanity defense were set to demonstrate on a grand stage how we as a country perceive the defense. The first of those cases was the ...
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