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Adacia Chambers, a 25-year-old woman who drove her grey Hyundai Electra into a crowd at the Oklahoma State University’s homecoming parade on October 24, 2015, killed four people as well as injured forty-six and according to court documents, she was not found to be intoxicated at the time of the incident. As reported by NBC News, “an application for psychology and crash reconstruction experts filed by Chambers' lawyer in Payne County Court revealed that Chambers' blood alcohol level was just .01…

Does the insanity defense work or does it need to be reformed? The criminal law states that, “A person can only be held responsible for their actions if they have freely chosen them, rather than had them determined by forces beyond their control” (D. Emer, PowerPoint Presentation, October 19,2016). The insanity defense is an affirmative defense, meaning the defendant admits guilt but request their illness remove their legal responsibility. When determining inanity, experts must use retrospective…

An insane man’s thoughts are an insane man’s actions. The defendant of this inhumane incident could not control his thoughts, so he deserves the insanity plea. There is no mentally healthy human that would kill another person who did absolutely nothing to them. He did what his thoughts told him to do. His actions and words fit the definition of insanity, so he surely needs to stay in rehab and get mental help. According to NAMI.org, the definition of psychosis is being unable to distinguish…

According to the oxford dictionary insanity is defines as, “The state of being seriously mentally ill; madness.” Insanity is when a person is mentally ill, that person might commit a crime according to society, but in their eyes it might be a way to show affection towards others. “Porphyria's Lover,” by Robert Browning is a great example of insanity. The narrator of the poem is mentally ill and ends up committing a crime in the eyes of society, but according to him he saved his lover from going…

For example, the insanity defense is a defense that is rarely used and rarely successful, but receives the most attention from media. In order to successfully use the insanity defense, the defendant must be judged legally insane, which consequently strips them from many of their political rights. The principle behind the insanity defense states that a person who lacks the mental capacity to form decisions based on right or wrong cannot be held legally responsible for their criminal acts. Each…

Insanity is a set of workout DVDs that claim to give consumers a year’s worth of results in sixty days. The creator of this sixty-day miracle is Shaun T, a fitness expert, who is known for having the most famous abs in fitness. Insanity promises the consumer results that will place them in best shape of their lives and fulfill their dream look due to its Max Interval Training, which is an intense workout for a solid three minutes with only a thirty second break. Although they provide a few forms…

The insanity defense allows a defendant in a case to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. Law Digests says that “the Insanity Defense is probably the most controversial of all criminal defense strategies”. The definition of legal insanity is when a person has a "Disorder which impairs the human mind and prevents distinguishing between actions that are right or wrong" (Duhaime 1). The defendant then has to prove to the court that he did not understand what he was doing (Findlaw 1). Along with…

There are a lot things in the world that are considered to be insane. For example, becoming obsessed with your brother’s girlfriend like in the story “The Hoarder” by Bradford Morrow, or “Stab” by Chris Adrian where a girl murders animals and tries to murder a child. These things to us seem to be insane because they are out of the ordinary. Things like this don’t happen on a daily basis but they do happen we just don’t know about them. In this essay, I will explain how the behavior within each…

Insanity is doing an action over and over again and expecting different results; When the same mistakes are made every time and people expect different results they should be considered insane. In English class papers are written with convention errors, but when the same conventions errors are seen in every paper, then there should be an expected change. When change does not come it becomes frustrating for the reader. Insane thoughts run rampant through the minds of people today. For example, if…

legal strategy, recall and relate to facts and events including his motives and actions when the crime was committed. He also has to be able to testify on his behalf. “The insanity defense has nothing to do with a defendants current mental status to be found not guilty by reason of insanity” According to Insanity Defense FAQs in paragraph two. A judge or jury will evaluate the defendant to determine their…