Sentence examples for in insanity from inspiring English sources
Lessons in insanity were not just fictional for Mr. Letts.
His interests ranged from genetic functions in insanity and sexual deviation to epilepsy, paralysis agitans, and hemicrania.
The Aron family hired Mr. Bazile, and when one defense lawyer quit, Mr. Bazile contacted Ms. McCann since she had experience in insanity pleas.
(Little understood in the 70s, the condition has since been successfully used in insanity defences in murder trials, notably that of Andrea Yates).
But legal experts said juries in insanity defense cases are known to go with their inner sense of whether or not a defendant is unsound or just faking it.
"My overarching responsibility is to ensure that the defendant will receive a fair trial," Justice Neil J. Firetog of State Supreme Court told the lawyers, Pierre Bazile, 40, a former police officer admitted to the bar in 2007, and Jennifer L. McCann, 30, a defense lawyer specializing in insanity defense pleas, according to a transcript of the hearing.
The treatment of the man who killed Al Lowenstein spans an era of wholesale change in the insanity defense in America.
Johnson had never expressed any interest in an insanity defense — what he called, in a letter from jail to his mother, "playing the coo-coo card".
In the two years since the verdict half the states enacted cutbacks in the insanity defense.
I am not alone in my insanity.
