Assertion: insanity's action | /r/HasProperty | wrong
Facets:
value: legally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Generally speaking, criminal insanity is understood as a mental defect or disease that makes it impossible for a defendant to understand their actions, or to understand that their actions are wrong.
text: In legal terms, insanity refers to a disorder of the mind which impairs an individual’s ability to know right from wrong, or otherwise prevents him from understanding that his actions are wrong.
text: The accused must, therefore, prove on the basis of the facts that he was suffering from a defect of reason caused by mental illness in an effort to argue insanity, because either he was unaware of the nature and quality of the act, or he had not realized that his actions were wrong.
text: If the D knows that their actions were legally wrong (Windle and Johnson) then regardless of the fact they may have a disease of the mind that causes them to commit an offence (Windle killed his wife due to depression) the D cannot successfully plea insanity.
text: Therefore if defendants can show by a preponderance of the evidence that they were involuntarily intoxicated during the commission of the crime, and that the intoxication was so severe that they could not know what they were doing or that their actions were wrong, then the jury should acquit them.