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  2. Insanity defense - Wikipedia

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    The insanity defense is also contrasted with a finding that a defendant cannot stand trial in a criminal case because a mental disease prevents them from effectively assisting counsel, from a civil finding in trusts and estates where a will is nullified because it was made when a mental disorder prevented a testator from recognizing the natural ...

  3. Billy Milligan - Wikipedia

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    His lawyers pleaded insanity, claiming that two of his alternate personalities committed the crimes without Milligan being aware of it. He was the first person diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder to raise such a defense, [1] and the first acquitted of a major crime for this reason, instead spending a decade in psychiatric hospitals.

  4. List of United States Supreme Court cases involving mental ...

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    The due process clause of the United States Constitution does not require states to adopt a definition of the insanity defense that turns on whether the defendant knew that his or her actions were morally wrong. 14th, 8th

  5. Not guilty by reason of insanity: Verdict for man, 79, who ...

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    The defense presented testimony from toxicology and pharmaceutical experts, but only one who offered an opinion on whether Reynolds was not guilty by reason of insanity. Defense psychologist ...

  6. Notice of insanity defense filed in Wilburton murder case - AOL

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    Mar. 21—A notice to assert a defense of insanity was filed for a woman federally indicted for murdering her mother in Wilburton last month. Tracy Ann Mannon, 51, was indicted March 13 in the ...

  7. United States federal laws governing defendants with mental ...

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    Per Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12.2, a defendant intending to pursue an insanity defense must timely notify an attorney for the government in writing. The government then has a right to have the court order a psychiatric or psychological examination.

  8. Portage jury weighs insanity plea for Suffield man who ... - AOL

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    A Portage County jury begins deliberations in the case of a Suffield man claiming insanity after stabbing wife to death on Valentine's Day, 2022 ... was up to Small and his defense attorneys to ...

  9. George Remus - Wikipedia

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    Remus specialized in criminal defense, especially murder, and became quite famous, due in large part to the highly publicized William Cheney Ellis murder case in 1914. It was in this case that Remus pioneered the "transitory insanity" defense that evolved into what is now known as the "temporary insanity" defense.