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insanity plea

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Noun1.insanity plea - (criminal law) a plea in which the defendant claims innocence due to mental incompetence at the time
criminal law - the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment
plea - (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer)


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Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard A Lane County jury, handed the rare task of deciding the sanity of a confessed kidnapper and rapist, on Wednesday swiftly rejected Malcolm Michael Gerlach's guilty but for insanity plea.
Byline: Sue Doyle, Staff Writer Prosecutors said Friday that the motorist charged with murder in the death of a pedestrian during a police chase in Woodland Hills might enter an insanity plea.
Dooley's dictum that "the Supreme Court follows the election returns" is tree, one only can hope that public outrage at the undermining of the criminal justice system with strategic uses of the insanity plea will serve to lessen such attempts.
 
 
 
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