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Assistant Montana Attorney General Barbara C. Harris said yesterday that state lawmakers abolished the insanity defense in 1979 in an attempt "to narrow the focus of the criminal proceeding." ... This court should make clear that its decision {in 1992} does not cast doubt upon the propriety of these prosecutions."
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Over the next few years, thirty-nine states made dozens of changes in their laws regarding insanity pleas. Utah and Idaho completely abolished the defense at criminal trials. There was a strong perception that the insanity defense was a "loophole" in the law that let murderers escape justice.
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In all, I believe that these problems, as well as others which will be mentioned later, lead us to the conclusion that the insanity defense is useless and should be abolished entirely. Insanity is a legal, not a medical definition.
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The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose; ... Successful insanity pleas are very, very rare and, when they work, the defendant is really, really crazy. As a society we should not be imprisoning or executing anyone who is really nutz enough to convince a jury that he didn't understand what he was doing.
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In accordance with the 1995 Nevada legislation, which abolished the affirmative defense of insanity, the district court denied his request to enter a plea of "not guilty by reason of insanity." As ... Under the new law, an accused is barred from arguing that he or she should be acquitted on the basis of legal insanity.
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An insanity plea is a poor excuse for serious lawbreaking, and should have no bearing on punishment. In a majority of criminal cases, especially murder trials, an insanity plea is merely a defense strategy aimed at delivering guilty defendants from the death penalty or serving time in prison.
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My belief that the insanity defense should be abolished is based partly on a conceptual critique and partly on a practical one. Now the conceptual one, very briefly, is that insanity is a dubious term which can refer to one of two things: First, to a brain disease, and I will say something about that;
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no i dont think so, because there are some people who truely have a mental illness. and sometimes that is why they will commit crimes. and putting them in the regular prison can only make things worse. they should be somewhere where they ca...
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The proposition that some criminal defendants should not be held responsible for their actions by reason of their mental state has been well established in Anglo-American law for centuries. ... The insanity defense was not abolished, but the A.L.I. test was discarded in favor of a stricter version which more closely...
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