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M'Naghten himself would have been found guilty if they had been applied at his trial. [6] [7] The rules so formulated as M'Naghten's Case 1843 10 C & F 200, [8] or variations of them, are a standard test for criminal liability in relation to mentally disordered defendants in various jurisdictions, either in common law or enacted by statute.
There is disagreement over how M'Naghten's name should be spelt (Mc or M' at the beginning, au or a in the middle, a, e, o or u at the end). M'Naghten is favoured in both English and American law reports, although the original trial report used M'Naughton; Bethlem and Broadmoor records use McNaughton and McNaughten. [2]
Arizona (1966), the state may not force a defendant to submit to a psychiatric examination solely for the purposes of sentencing. Any such examination violates the defendant's Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination as well as the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, and is therefore inadmissible at sentencing. [163] 1981 – In Tokarcik v.
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The ALI rule, or American Law Institute Model Penal Code rule, is a recommended rule for instructing juries how to find a defendant in a criminal trial is not guilty by reason of insanity.
The M'Naghten case is sufficiently important in all common law jurisdictions that the case report more than justifies its own page. Secondly, the M'Naghten Rules page is a technical law page and it would disrupt the flow of legal content to interpolate historical and other material irrelevant to the the law. David91 04:30, 14 March 2006 (UTC)