What is the Insanity Defense?

This appeared in The Millennial Source

The Millennial Source
Age of Awareness
Published in
5 min readMar 26, 2020

--

A decision by the United States Supreme Court could allow states to eliminate the so-called “insanity defense” that allows a criminal defendant to argue that they are mentally incapable of understanding right from wrong.

As of now, only five states fail to allow the insanity defense, but it is believed more states may move…

--

--