{"id":609,"date":"2012-10-19T13:50:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=609"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:48:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:48:37","slug":"13-insanity-you-wouldnt-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"13. Insanity: You Wouldn&#8217;t Understand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-610\" title=\"Excuse13\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse13.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse13.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse13-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e68bae8c8d16032338857' value='69e68bae8c8d16032338857'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e68bae8c8d16032338857' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e68bae8c8d16032338857' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e68bae8c8d16032338857' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 11: Excuse Me! <br \/>Excuse pg 13: What Insanity Means<\/p>\n<p>When the law says you&#8217;re insane, then, what it means is you aren&#8217;t able to\u00a0<strong>understand<\/strong> that what you&#8217;re doing is\u00a0<strong>wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not so much this\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>A crazy-looking guy in a straitjacket in a psycho background<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2026as this:<\/p>\n<p><em>A brain unplugged from a wall socket labeled &#8220;REALITY&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Various states use slightly different definitions, but they all basically mean an inability to understand what you were doing, or that it was wrong, because of some mental problem.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e68bae8c8d16032338857' 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-609","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\/609","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=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}