... , he will not attempt to defend his client in this fashion. When using the insanity plea an attorney must project what his client was or was not thinking at the time of the crime. That is a major reason why this defense does not work. We can never be truly certain that what you see in court is the real thing. As ... general prisons we are shooting ourselves in the foot. They will not get the right services that they need. In the end, anyone that commits a crime has to do the time. We need to be careful how we hand out sentences, but to be fair, we have to allow an insanity defense to be ...

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