• jurisdictions "settled insanity" can be used as a basis for an insanity defense, even though voluntary intoxication cannot, if the "settled insanity" negates...
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  • 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...
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  • gone (People v. Robinson, 1999). Neither voluntary intoxication nor settled insanity is a defense. "Tha Row Removed From Wrongful-Death Suit". Billboard...
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  • jurisdictions "settled insanity" can be used as a basis for an insanity defense, even though voluntary intoxication can not, if the "settled insanity" negates...
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  • that lacks all but the most attenuated guilty intent, recklessness. Settled insanity is a possible defense. Many criminal codes protect the physical integrity...
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  • Supreme Court casePages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback Settled insanity – Condition caused by long-term substance abuse Tennard v. Dretke –...
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  • diminished responsibility, or irresistible impulse..." Insanity defense Intoxication defense Settled insanity See e.g., State v. Shank, 322 N.C. 243, 367 S.E...
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    Kansas v. Hendricks - involuntary civil commitment for sexual predators Settled insanity – Condition caused by long-term substance abuse Ultimate issue Twinkie...
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  • something is deemed unethical. Applied psychology Forensic psychiatry Settled insanity Competency evaluation (law) List of United States Supreme Court cases...
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  • a "settled insanity" defense alone without the link to a mental disorder. No lay witnesses testified as to any behavior consistent with insanity, even...
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  • include arson, rape, common law murder, and voluntary manslaughter. Settled insanity Javed, Azhar. "Intoxication & Self-defence: A Comparative Study of...
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    John Hinckley Jr. (category People acquitted by reason of insanity)
    Scorsese's 1976 film Taxi Driver. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and remained under institutional psychiatric care for over three decades...
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  • Insanity (Finnish: Vihanpidot; literally translated "The Feuding") is a 2019 Finnish found footage horror film written and directed by Miska Kajanus. The...
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  • Forensic psychiatry Hearsay evidence Justice system Mitigating factors Settled insanity Ultimate issue Institutions in the United States that have a Bachelor's...
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    Edward Oxford (category People acquitted by reason of insanity)
    and charged with high treason. A jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity and he was detained indefinitely at Her Majesty's pleasure at the two State...
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    Part of the common law series Actual innocence Immunity Mental disorder (Insanity) Diminished responsibility Intoxication Infancy Automatism Alibi Consent...
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    was described by Eugene Virgil Smalley in 1893: "an alarming amount of insanity occurs in the new Prairie States among farmers and their wives." Prairie...
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  • to gender bias. Her diagnosis suggests that "normal" is as relative as insanity is, and Kaysen interrogates the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
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    five other known murders. Strauss tried to avoid conviction by feigning insanity in the courtroom and on death row. Strauss and Goldstein were convicted...
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    invokes "Catch-22" to explain why any pilot requesting mental evaluation for insanity—hoping to be found not sane enough to fly and thereby escape dangerous...
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    Richard Lawrence (failed assassin) (category People acquitted by reason of insanity)
    taken into custody. At trial, Lawrence was found not guilty by reason of insanity and spent the remainder of his life in insane asylums. Lawrence was born...
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    particularly admired his poem "Yardley-Oak". After being institutionalised for insanity, Cowper found refuge in a fervent evangelical Christianity. He continued...
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  • Boronda had made "a vile request." At the trial she settled on a defense of "emotional insanity" from extreme jealousy. She took the stand in her defense...
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  • features in his house. Du Pont pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. The insanity defense was thrown out by the court and, on February 25, 1997, a...
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  • December 26, 1979, Christiansen entered a plea of "not guilty by reason of insanity," in addition to his previous "not guilty" plea. He was scheduled to stand...
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    the War of the Romantics, Richard Wagner mocked this idea. Amid Robert's insanity and institutionalization, Brahms stayed with and became devoted to Clara...
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    ISBN 978-0-393-05936-6. Jung, K. Elan (2010). Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity. The Hudson Press. ISBN 978-0-9831448-0-9. Klaffke, Pamela (2003). Spree:...
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    England, approximately 19 miles (31 km) west of central London. First settled in the Bronze Age, the town was under the control of Chertsey Abbey for...
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    the jewels she had received from him, unless he remained in his state of insanity, in which case the jewels were to become an heirloom of the House of Hanover...
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    created by the writer. "The Kill" was inspired by themes of isolation and insanity present in the Stanley Kubrick-directed psychological horror film The Shining...
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