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Criminal defenses. The insanity defense, also known as the mental disorder defense, is an affirmative defense by excuse in a criminal case, arguing that the defendant is not responsible for their actions due to a psychiatric disease at the time of the criminal act. This is contrasted with an excuse of provocation, in which the defendant is ...
United States federal laws governing offenders with mental diseases or defects (18 U.S.C. §§ 4241 – 4248) provide for the evaluation and handling of defendants who are suspected of having mental diseases or defects. The laws were completely revamped by the Insanity Defense Reform Act in the wake of the John Hinckley Jr. verdict.
On December 11, 2017, Damian McElrath was found guilty but mentally ill by a jury on the charge of felony murder and aggravated assault, but not guilty on the charge of malice murder due to insanity. Both charges are related to one episode where McElrath stabbed his adoptive mother, Diane McElrath, 50 times until her death.
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.
A report produced by Killian earlier this year determined that Reed was "guilty but mentally ill" of the Jan. 4, 2022, incident in which Silas was stabbed 43 times and struck with a sledgehammer ...
By pleading guilty but mentally ill to third-degree murder, Rowry faces a maximum sentence of 40 years in state prison at her sentencing on Jan. 3 before Erie County Judge David Ridge, who ...
Jones v. United States, 463 U.S. 354 (1983), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the court, for the first time, addressed whether the due process requirement of the Fourteenth Amendment allows defendants, who were found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) of a misdemeanor crime, to be involuntarily confined to a mental institution until such times as they are no longer a danger ...
In February, a Marion County jury found Elliahs Dorsey guilty but mentally ill to reckless homicide in the 2020 killing of Leath. He was found guilty but mentally ill of criminal recklessness ...