Lawyers of accused kidnapper Brendt Christensen filed a motion on Sept. 21 for more time to decide whether they will pursue a mental health defense during the upcoming trial for the alleged kidnap and ...
The Supreme Court's new Term will begin next week with a fascinating criminal law case, Kahler v. Kansas, that asks a simple question: Can a state eliminate the insanity defense? I think Kahler may ...
The insanity defense, a bedrock principle of American criminal justice, is suddenly in peril. Aberrant laws in Kansas and four other states have decreed that a defendant can be guilty even if ...
The Virginia Law Review is a journal of general legal scholarship published by the students of the University of Virginia School of Law. The continuing objective of the Virginia Law Review is to ...
Historians are not quite sure whether Daniel M’Naghten, a Scottish woodworker, intended to kill Edward Drummond or Drummond’s boss, the English prime minister Robert Peel. In fact, he killed Drummond.
No, not the insanity of law. Although, admittedly, if you’ve been locked within its grasp, the inverse of the notion posited in the title may seem equally apt. But the subject here is insanity as ...
A new Mental Health Review Board chaired by a lawyer or judge with ten years' experience, and the right of both defence and prosecution to appeal decisions on insanity, are among the provision of the ...
IRISH legislation on criminal insanity is 'in serious breach' of the European Convention on Human Rights, the National Prosecutors' Conference heard on Saturday. Barrister Una Ni Raifeartaigh said ...
No, not the insanity of law. Although, admittedly, if you’ve been locked within its grasp, the inverse of the notion posited in the title may seem equally apt. But the subject here is insanity as ...
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