Pleading insane in the court room

Title: Pleading insane in the court room
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics | Words: 624 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)

Pleading insane in the court room

How can a person commit a serious crime and be found not guilty? This question can be answered with one word, insanity. If you were to look up the word insanity in the Webster dictionary, it would state: crazy, not legally responsible for one’s actions. In some court cases today defendants are pleading not guilty do to insanity. The court is excepting this because as the definition say’s they where not responsible for …showed first 75 words of 624 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 624 total…s I feel that Hinckley is mentally ill and should never be allowed to be free. If “not guilty do to insanity” was not allowed in court rooms, then people like John Hickley would be prosecuted and sentenced to jail or even given the death penalty. But because this law is still in effect people like John Hickley who once commited a serious crime, are free again to commit another, maybe even more, serious crime.

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