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 ...
Grafton Thomas sits charged with multiple counts of attempted murder and federal hate crimes following the attack on Hannukah celebrants in Monsey, N.Y. last year. Thomas’s case is as complex as it is ...
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 ...
The conviction of Andrea Pia Yates on charges of capital murder brought new life to one of the oldest debates in jurisprudence -- how and whether to hold mentally ill people responsible for criminal ...
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Schizophrenia, insanity, and the law: What the Nick Reiner case reveals about criminal responsibility
As prosecutors pursue an alleged double homicide alongside claims of schizophrenia and treatment shifts, a familiar fault line in criminal law is exposed once again. The post Schizophrenia, Insanity, ...
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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