M’Naughten standard – Samurai Shrink (formally Wandering Shrink)

From M’Naghten to Hinckley: How American Courts Rewrote the Insanity Plea

In the last post, I looked at what it actually means for a defendant to be found “not guilty by reason of insanity”—what the plea does, what it does not do, and how courts think about responsibility when serious mental illness is involved. Here, I want to step back and trace how the legal testsContinueContinue reading “From M’Naghten to Hinckley: How American Courts Rewrote the Insanity Plea”