Insanity_Defense

Insanity Defense The Insanity Defense Not guilty by reason of insanity. This defense is probably the most used and abused line of defense we have. Who is to say if the defendant was insane at the time of the crime' The victim, witness, or the testimony of “expert” witness' People who plea insanity to get out of their own actions should be punished just as bad as the crime they committed or even worse in some cases. Who is to say the person is insane or not though so when they plea the “Insanity Defense” they could be insane or they could be trying to get out of murder or just a robbery so you have to trust your instinct I think a give them the correct punishment. The insanity defense refers to the concept of the mental state of the person who committed the crime. In the end the terms of such a defense are to be found in the instructions presented by the trial judge to the jury at the close of a case. The jury will have to take all the evidence presented by the lawyers’ “expert” witness to decide if the insanity, mental, defense, crime, illness, person, defendant, insane, criminal, legal, jury, committed, rule, between, act, trial, should, rea, plea, murder, mens, lawyers, guilty, behavior, accused, wrong, time, test, state, released, reason, psychiatrists, protect, mentally