The Insanity Defense
Standard for Legal
Insanity Has Shifted?
Even (fox news
followers), know that enough is enough!
Gabriel Sherman
@gabrielsherman
Vanity Fair special
corresponde
The republican party
has been using, without proof I might add, Hillary Clintons email defense since
2013!
Hillary Clinton
email probe back in the spotlight
The State Department
has revived an investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails, and is now
expanding it to include career diplomats who've never even sent her messages
directly.
trump was again attacking Clinton for her emails again over
the weekend.
NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reports for TODAY.
trump is scared that
Hillary might run again and he knows that she will win the Whitehouse if she
does.
Clinton Email probe
back in the spotlight!
State Dept.
Investigating Email Practices of Hillary Clinton’s Former Staff
The inquiry is
examining whether the employees used secure channels and the proper
classification designations for what appeared to be routine emails at the time.
Judge orders more
fact-finding in Clinton email case
By JOSH GERSTEIN
12/06/2018 10:28 PM
EST
Published January
12, 2017
Hillary Clinton
Email Criminal Investigation to Reopen
Clinton emails back
in spotlight after FBI move brings new twist
Mark Hosenball and
Jonathan Allen
Oct 28th 2016 9:05PM
Former State Dept
employee told dozens of emails to Hillary Clinton are now years later being
labeled classified
By Kristen Holmes
and Paul LeBlanc, CNN 6 hrs ago
Sunday's biggest
disappointments
Top bodyguard to 2
Saudi kings shot dead
A former US official
who left the State Department in 2012 received a letter in August informing him
that dozens of his emails sent to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were
now being recategorized as classified.
The Insanity Defense
Standard for Legal
Insanity Has Shifted?
The standard for
claiming a defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity (trumps defendant), has changed through
the years from strict guidelines to a more lenient interpretation, and back to
a more strict standard again.
Although definitions
of legal insanity differ from state to state, generally a person is considered
insane and is not responsible for criminal conduct if, at the time of the
offense, as a result of a severe mental disease or defect, he was unable to
appreciate the nature and quality or the wrongfulness of his acts.
This reasoning is,
because willfull intent is an essential part of most offenses, a person who is
insane is not capable of forming such intent. Mental disease or defect does not
alone constitute a legal insanity defense. The defendant has the burden of proving
the defense of insanity by clear and convincing evidence.
March 17, 2017