{"id":618,"date":"2012-10-19T13:52:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=618"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:52:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:52:26","slug":"16-insanity-has-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=618","title":{"rendered":"16. Insanity Has Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-619\" title=\"Excuse16\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse16.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse16.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Excuse16-150x300.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69dfed7d29a144073719096' value='69dfed7d29a144073719096'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69dfed7d29a144073719096' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69dfed7d29a144073719096' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69dfed7d29a144073719096' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 11: Excuse Me! <br \/>Excuse pg 16: Insanity is a defense against criminal punishment, not civil commitment.<\/p>\n<p>So if Insanity is proven, the defendant\u00a0<strong>cannot<\/strong> be found\u00a0<strong>guilty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean he simply goes\u00a0<strong>free,<\/strong> though.<\/p>\n<p><em>Empty corridor of a mental institution<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He might have to be\u00a0<strong>committed<\/strong> to a mental institution until he&#8217;s no longer a danger to himself or others.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s an act of\u00a0<strong>civil<\/strong> law, not criminal law.<\/p>\n<p>Who has to prove it? In most states and in federal court, Insanity must be proved by the\u00a0<strong>defendant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And what&#8217;s relevant is the defendant&#8217;s mental state at the time of the\u00a0<strong>offense.<\/strong> (Whether he&#8217;s mentally competent to stand trial now, or to be punished later, are separate issues.)<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69dfed7d29a144073719096' 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-618","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\/618","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=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}