☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Insanity Defense (Detail)

The defense that the defendant was suffering from a severe mental disease at the time of the crime — preventing them from understanding the nature of their act (cognitive prong) or knowing it was wrong (moral prong).

Category: Legal Psychology · Source: M'Naghten's Case (1843)
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