After watching an 8-year-old boy fight with his mother in a grocery store, the man grabs the boy, shoves him in his car, and takes him out for an ice cream-thinking that he is helping the boy and fulfilling his God-given mission.
She breaks into her neighbors’ house and takes their vacuum cleaner, which she believes is her own.She may be able to beat charges of California burglary with the insanity defense because she did not understand the nature of her act-she did not understand that she was taking someone else’s property. A woman who suffers from paranoid delusions is convinced that her neighbors have stolen her vacuum cleaner.
Here are some examples of situations in which the legal defense of insanity could help a defendant get a verdict of not guilty: If you can convince the jury at your California criminal jury trial that you are not guilty by reason of insanity, then you will be committed to a state mental hospital instead of being sent to prison. For the insanity defense to work, you will then need to prove that it is more likely than not that you were legally insane when you committed your crime. You can plead not guilty by reason of insanity at your arraignment hearing. This definition of legal insanity is known as the “ McNaghten (sometimes spelled M’Naghten or McNaughten) rule.” 3 Did not understand that what you were doing was morally wrong.
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