The insanity defense…
January 24, 2011
I am perplexed by the treatment of the insanity defense both in the media and by the law. Overall, the defense is not well liked or respected, and notoriously difficult to succeffully wield. The law cites policy reasons for this treatment such as the high chance of fraudalant use and difficulty in proving the threshold needed to actually take away the ability to know the difference between right and wrong. Not to excuse anyone for their actions, I wonder if we underestimates people’s ability to truly go off the deep end, and if we are appropriately punishing that…
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