Not guilty by reason of insanity(NGRI), means that the person is unaware; incapable of distinguishing right from wrong during the time that the crime is committed. In a case where a person is found not guilty by reason of insanity, the person’s actions are slightly justified. They would receive an acquittal, only if they can win over the court, allowing them to be admitted to a stay, serving their sentence at a mental hospital verses prison. Furthermore, guilty by mental illness(GBMI) still includes the word guilty, this meaning the person will still be found guilty but has had history or diagnosing of a mental illness that would make a person incapable of controlling their actions.
Anders Breivik is known to the public eye as a mass murder. On July 22, 2012 Breivik detonated a bomb that was set off in the center of the Norwegian capital. Following the detonation of the bomb Breivik fled the seen to a local island where he shot and killed sixty-nine people. Norway does not have the death penalty; therefore, Breivik was sentenced to the maximum of twenty-one years in prison in which he must serve a minimum of ten years.
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Yates was unwillingly admitted to a treatment center due to her illness. On June 20, 2001 after her husband departed for work she drowned all five of her children. During the trial Yates pleaded innocence by reason of insanity. In March of 2002 the jury rejected the insanity plea and she was sentenced to forty years with the possibility of parole. However, January of 2006 the Texas Court of appeals reversed the sentence due to errors in the previous trial. They believed that the psychiatrist swayed the case, when he established that Yates was aware of her actions at the time of her crime. Yates was in fact found not guilty by reason of insanity and instead admitted to the state
Anders Breivik is known to the public eye as a mass murder. On July 22, 2012 Breivik detonated a bomb that was set off in the center of the Norwegian capital. Following the detonation of the bomb Breivik fled the seen to a local island where he shot and killed sixty-nine people. Norway does not have the death penalty; therefore, Breivik was sentenced to the maximum of twenty-one years in prison in which he must serve a minimum of ten years.
If I was the lawyer in …show more content…
Yates was unwillingly admitted to a treatment center due to her illness. On June 20, 2001 after her husband departed for work she drowned all five of her children. During the trial Yates pleaded innocence by reason of insanity. In March of 2002 the jury rejected the insanity plea and she was sentenced to forty years with the possibility of parole. However, January of 2006 the Texas Court of appeals reversed the sentence due to errors in the previous trial. They believed that the psychiatrist swayed the case, when he established that Yates was aware of her actions at the time of her crime. Yates was in fact found not guilty by reason of insanity and instead admitted to the state