HST 503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Forensic Psychiatry, Dissociative Disorder, Thomas Szasz
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The house of lords step in: media and pub outraged by verdict. London times published poem explaining how cjs is bending over backwards to accommodate: sir nicholas conyngham tindal led panel of 15 judges to est guidelines for insanity defence. June 1843: m"naghten rules enacted; prove mentally ill and one other: mentally ill, couldn"t understand what they were doing during crime, did not know what they did was wrong. Lang too muddled and vague to be taken seriously. Lawrence j. davis: fts mi that don"t exist or worthy of diagnosis. Louis riel: tried for treason, lawyers tried to mount insanity defence according to m"naghten rules. Little to say about mental state during rrr itself. Jukes reiterated testimony: sane and legally responsible for actions: villade: held riel was insane. Lavell made similar claims: unable to distinguish right and wrong on political and religious subjects, qu ministers assured and fell in line.
