insanity defense

You may be able to get off on an insanity defense.

The same question is asked in the common law insanity defense, he said.

"But I told her the insanity defense was a good one!"

He had one more question: Does the young man have a shot at the insanity defense?

He said all options were open, including an insanity defense.

For an insanity defense, Katie would never have to take the stand.

And here you had such a good insanity defense going."

Each jurisdiction may have its own standards of the insanity defense.

It was the first time anyone had ever mounted an insanity defense there.

"Going for an insanity defense," the cops told one another.

Only a handful of states take such a limited approach to the insanity defense.

Early in his career he began studying issues related to the insanity defense.

That was part of the reason we decided to use an insanity defense."

"Say we're talking in criminal law, and we get to the subject of the insanity defense," he said.

Nothing like putting an insanity defense together before you commit the crime.

One of which, believe it or not, was an insanity defense."

And state of mind is what the insanity defense is all about.

He is soon released after a successful temporary insanity defense.

A classic insanity defense states that the defendant did not know right from wrong.

He said that his previous attorneys should have taken the case to trial and used the insanity defense.

The husband hired a lawyer who specialized in the insanity defense.

"I thought you were using an insanity defense," Leda said.

"You're really asking if an insanity defense can get your client off.

In March 2002, a jury rejected the insanity defense and found her guilty.

Some issues, such as whether a insanity defense can be withdrawn upon appeal, have not been settled.