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Closing arguments in the murder trial of Tamera Laws, 28, ended on Friday, Jan. 31, with her attorney saying she should be found not guilty by reason of insanity, KSAT reports.
The Massachusetts mom charged with strangling her three kids with exercise bands will undergo a psychiatric exam after her lawyers said they are preparing to mount an insanity defense.. Plymouth ...
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 ...
Cindy Chesna stands at the Blue Hills Cemetery grave in Braintree of her late husband, Weymouth police Sgt. Michael Chesna, after a jury found the shooter guilty at his second trial on Friday, Feb ...
Kahler v. Kansas, 589 U.S. ___ (2020), is a case of the United States Supreme Court in which the justices ruled that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution do not require that states adopt the insanity defense in criminal cases that are based on the defendant's ability to recognize right from wrong.
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
It also cannot be used as a defense for a "temporary frenzy or passion fueled by hate." Contact Kelli Arseneau at 920-213-3721 or karseneau@gannett.com . Follow her on X, formerly Twitter, at ...
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 ...