(For some reason, knowing it by heart has not prevented me from understanding it).
Judge Bork was hardly unique in his sense of entitlement, but it ran so deep that it prevented him from understanding the obvious dynamic of what happened.
Mr. Berk's sons, Joel and Harvey, said in a petition filed in Brooklyn Surrogate's Court that their father suffered from severe dementia that prevented him from understanding what he was doing.
Patients with severe medical, psychiatric, or neurological disorders, mental retardation, and alcohol or drug abuse that prevented them from understanding the questionnaires and cooperating with the study were also excluded.
These criteria included the very complex issue of Magnotta's mental state at the time of the murder and whether or not that mental state prevented him from understanding his actions.
McAuliffe said he believed Morva had received a fair trial, and that mental health professionals testified that they didn't believe his mental illness prevented him from understanding his crimes.
According to Aya Gruber, a criminal law professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, "insanity" is strictly a legal term, not a medical one, and in order to be declared legally insane, you must have been not only been diagnosed with a mental illness, but demonstrate that it was that illness that prevented you from understanding right from wrong when committing a crime.
I'd just flown in from Denver, attempting to begin a week-long vacation, when the news came over the radio that Tom Barlas Jr. was found not guilty of the murder of his father, due to his suffering a "psychotic episode" that prevented him from understanding the consequence of his actions.
According to a statement by Polish police spokesperson Mariusz Sokolowiski as related to the Associated Press, the police were only called in because the Italians failed to provide any identification most likely because the language barrier prevented them from understanding the guards' request.
In the first situation, the defendant must show that he was either suffering from a disease which damaged the functioning of the mind and led to a defect of reason that prevented him from understanding what he was doing, or that he could not tell that what he was doing was wrong.
