The insanity plea is a plea in which the defendant claims innocent due to a mental problem at the time. Insanity is a mental disorder that is so serious that it can prevent people from making rational de

Jessie White is a man who was accused of sexually assaulting and beating his three-year- old step granddaughter to death. White’s attorney asked the courts to allow White to use the guilty by reason of insanity, but the courts declined. The reason why the courts declined is for this reason; White had an appointment with a psychologist. The psychologist said that White may have not known right from wrong, but he did indeed know that what he was doing at the time was wrong. White ended up pleading innocent to the charge of first degree murder; prosecutors planned to seek the death penalty. (Kern)

Lee Boyd Malvo guilty of the Washington area sniper shootings claimed to be insane. Insane is not a medical judgment it is a legal one. Malvo was found not guilty in October 2002. To prove that Malvo was insane the attorney’s had to prove that Malvo was brainwashed by John Allen Muhammad. Malvo was brainwashed so bad that he could not tell the difference between right and wrong. (Cauvin)

States have been making it harder to prove guilty but insane, since the 1982 acquittal of John Hinckley who tried to assassinate then former President Ronald Regan. Twelve states have done away with the guilty but insane verdict while others have become very strict of what is considered as insane. (World Report 1)

courts. Someone that drowns their five children in a bathtub should be guilty. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Being mentally ill means that you can not tell from right from wrong. Well the courts believed that Andrea Yates could tell the difference from right and wrong. Yates drowned her five children, but who in their right mind would drown their five children? Yates attorney’s worked hard to save Yates life. All it took was at least one juror to find Yates guilty. And Yates could

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