{"id":606,"date":"2012-10-19T13:49:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=606"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:48:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:48:07","slug":"12-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"12. Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-607\" title=\"Excuse12\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse12.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse12-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e0c1a0ce3573035124862' value='69e0c1a0ce3573035124862'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e0c1a0ce3573035124862' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e0c1a0ce3573035124862' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e0c1a0ce3573035124862' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 11: Excuse Me! <br \/>Excuse pg 12: Insanity<\/p>\n<p>So Provocation rarely works any more; and when it does, it&#8217;s not even a complete defense (again, it&#8217;s only available in murder cases, and only reduces the charge to manslaughter).<\/p>\n<p><strong>INSANITY,<\/strong> on the other hand,\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">is<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>a complete defe-<\/p>\n<p><em>An angry woman interrupts, offended<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>OFFENDED WOMAN<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Stop right there. That&#8217;s a very\u00a0<strong>insensitive<\/strong> term. I prefer you say &#8220;having a psychiatric illness or emotional disability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No, &#8220;Insanity&#8221; is actually the right word to use. It&#8217;s not a medical term or one of the ever-changing PC euphemisms for mental disorder.<\/p>\n<p><em>Average Joe talking head<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>AVERAGE JOE<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This may sound crazy, but the term &#8220;insanity&#8221; is not a psychiatric diagnosis, but a\u00a0<strong>legal conclusion.<\/strong> It&#8217;s determined not by doctors, but by jurors.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e0c1a0ce3573035124862' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-defenses","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}