insanity defence

But neither is legal grounds for an insanity defence under Scottish law.

Critics said his statement may have been a ploy to prepare an insanity defence.

Self-defence does, but the insanity defence establishes only an excuse.

Rîmaru, whose trial drew significant public attention, thought he had convinced investigators of his insanity defence.

No matter that they had no problems assuring an insanity defence before examining the patient.

The new provisions also replaced the old insanity defence with the current mental disorder defence.

The insanity defence was replaced with being found not criminally responsible by reason of a mental disorder".

That suggests detachment and the ability to think analytically, which poses a problem for the whole notion of an insanity defence.

The insanity defence is his only hope.'

Experts are admissible as a necessity where a defendant pleads an insanity defence, or a defence of diminished responsibility.

He also dismissed the insanity defence; it was clear from the depositions and Dudley's prayer that they were aware of the quality of their actions.

"The insanity defence: from wild beasts to M'Naghten."

They'll use your testimony to support their claim that his psychosis is a fabrication of recent vintage; the insanity defence, some kind of legal stunt.

The first words Coke's definition refer to the M'Naghten Rules on the insanity defence and infancy.

The phenomenon is a relatively recent one, since diminished responsibility was only introduced into English law in 1957, in response to long-standing dissatisfaction with the insanity defence.

The M'Naghten Rules developed by the House of Lords after his trial were to establish the basis for the insanity defence in all common law countries.

Yaworsky warned Nosanchuk that even if he used an insanity defence and won, Lamb would probably be committed to an institution for the criminally insane for life.

Though I know how ambivalent you are about the insanity defence -and wouldn't want to tax your conscience - you'll be welcome to participate in the defence at that time.'

There is an insanity defence in the US, based on the M'Nachten Rules that originated in the UK, although some states have abolished it.

Finding Lamb not guilty by reason of insanity, he reasoned, would provide an inexpedient precedent in Canadian law and cause a spate of similar insanity defence attempts.

There is also widespread discrimination by jurors, who Perlin characterizes as demonstrating "irrational brutality, prejudice, hostility, and hatred" towards defendants where there is an insanity defence.

Whether or not it constitutes some kind of disorder (persuasive as a kind of insanity defence), presumably there will be far more evidence from his history, relations in past etc..

The Americans, by contrast, have, until the current backlash, attempted to expand the insanity defence, with its controversial 'not guilty' judgment, in order to achieve the same compassionate aim of keeping the mentally-ill out of prison.