Insanity Defense Conditions
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Under what conditions could someone use the insanity defense? Support your response with factual information from your textbook or additional resources.
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Insanity Defense
We often hear of insanity as a defense utilized by those accused in court to explain/justify their actions. But what is insanity defense in plain terms? When a defendant uses insanity as a defense, he or she is asserting that at the time they committed the crime, they did not have the mental competence to have allowed them to judge their actions to be wrong as at the time it occurred, they were mentally incompetent or insane. According to Findlaw (2016), "A criminal defendant who is found to have been legally insane when he or she committed a crime may be found not guilty by reason of insanity. In some ...
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