Sentences with phrase «insanity as defense»

The US Probation Department had recommended 6 1/2 to 8 years of prison for Halloran, who tried to claim insanity as a defense at trial and is a «prince» in a pagan order that includes public floggings.

Could this be a case of insanity as defense?

Not exact matches

To be sure, there are a few exceptions: in the case of murder, for example, we recognize justifications such as self - defense, excuses such as insanity, and mitigations such as provocation.

To sum things up I see it as insanity to devote more money towards the defense of something than we do towards that something itself.

To the extent that the crime can be understood as a culmination of an extremist world view, then the perpetrator would be criminally responsible; to the extent that the criminal behavior was a product of a mental illness, he might be eligible for a defense of diminished capacity or not guilty by reason of insanity.

And you know that most jurors have little patience for criminal - defense arguments based on such notions as «temporary insanity.»

More over he has confessed this publicly, and the sole «defense» he can invoke is the «lapse in judgement» which might be pushed as temporary insanity.

As further evidence, take the 19th Century case that is said to have introduced the defense of temporary insanity in American jurisprudence.