Yoshihiro Yasuda, the most experienced attorney on Shoko Asahara's defence team, was arrested and charged with obstruction of the compulsory execution concerning a corporation in which he was an adviser.

He was tried for treason on 19 September ; the Crown repaired the weaknesses in its case by secretly buying the assistance of Emmet's defence attorney, Leonard Macnally, for £ 200 and a pension.

He then progressed to the District Attorney's office as an ADA, hung his own shingle as a defence attorney for several years, then became DA of Monticello.

Mundt ’ s attorney calls the unsuspecting Liz Gold as a surprise witness for the defence.

Spaggiari chose Jacques Peyrat, a veteran of the French Foreign Legion who belonged at the time to the National Front, as his defence attorney.

In 2009, Michael Bolton, defence attorney in the Basi-Virk trial, alleged that Clark had participated in the scandal by providing government information to lobbyist Erik Bornmann.

In February 2009, Kingston portrayed Miranda Pond, a defence attorney in two episodes of the legal drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Neither Murray nor Carolyn MacDonald, the other attorney on the defence team, were deeply experienced criminal lawyers and it was only over time that their ethical dilemma showed itself also to be a potentially criminal matter, for they were withholding evidence.

Terre ' Blanche pointed out that his defence attorney suddenly resigned as a member of the ultra-conservative white Conservative Party's Volksraad and joined the ANC shortly after the conclusion of the court case.

* Patricia Buckley as Dawn Norton, Jamal Abu Zikry's defence attorney.

As a part of his defence in that case his attorney cited Radio Caroline as an example of why offshore radio broadcasting was a legal enterprise.

Quick's attorney now contends that the prosecution withheld important investigative material from the defence ( which the prosecution adamantly denies ).

* Joe Warfield as defence attorney

Len follows Rose to the trial and sees her with Johnny ; Marcia receives further threats but-after telling the Judge-agrees to stay on, although the Judge says if any other juror is influenced, he will call for a retrial ; Elsie learns that she may need a transplant ; Cording, the defence attorney, learns of a psychopath who was arrested on the day of the crime near the scene ; Duvinder takes the stand, claiming he stole the sword and planned to kill Maher but then backed out, dropped the sword and fled ; Peter is threatened.

In his defence, he pleaded that the wind had been against him and that Brueys had not issued orders for him to counterattack the British fleet.

It was ruled that the judge should have left the defence of automatism open to him, so his conviction was quashed ( he had pleaded guilty rather than not guilty by reason of insanity ).

In the following year he pleaded for the liberation of the duchess, made a memorable speech in defence of François-René de Chateaubriand, who was prosecuted for his violent attacks on the government of Louis-Philippe of France, and undertook the defence of several Legitimist journalists.

There have been a series of causes célèbres involving the treaty, including the NatWest Three who later pleaded guilty to fraud against the US parent company of their employers, and Gary McKinnon who admitted hacking US defence computers.

On August 29, 1867, Ulrichs became the first homosexual to speak out publicly in defence of homosexuality when he pleaded at the Congress of German Jurists in Munich for a resolution urging the repeal of anti-homosexual laws.

Harvey Smith pleaded that he was using a Victory sign, a defence also used by other figures in the public eye.

Heavily influenced by the nineteenth century boxing case of R v Coney, the trial judge ruled that consent was not a valid defence to actual bodily harm, and the defendants pleaded guilty.

" Ferrers subsequently said that he had only pleaded insanity to oblige his family, and that he had himself always been ashamed of such a defence.

However, these attempts at a defence were suddenly abandoned on the first day of his trial, 28 November 1945, when to general astonishment Amery pleaded guilty to eight charges of treason and was immediately sentenced to death.

Bonnet pleaded not guilty and conducted his own defence without assistance of counsel, cross-examining the witnesses to little avail, and calling a character witness in his favor.

At his trial at the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh he pleaded not guilty and lodged a special defence of alibi, claiming that he was at home cooking dinner at the time of the murder.

" The preliminary hearing took place in early December 2009 where Smith pleaded not guilty to the stabbing or having a knife and he stated that he acted in self defence.

Bushell pleaded not guilty, and conducted his own defence.

The House of Lords asked the judges of the common law courts to answer five questions on insanity as a criminal defence, and the formulation that emerged from their review — that a defendant should not be held responsible for his actions only if, as a result of his mental disease or defect, he ( i ) did not know that his act would be wrong ; or ( ii ) did not understand the nature and quality of his actions — became the basis of the law governing legal responsibility in cases of insanity in England.

The House of Lords asked a panel of judges, presided over by Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, a series of hypothetical questions about the defence of insanity.

In Norman times insanity was not seen as a defence in itself but a special circumstance in which the jury would deliver a guilty verdict and refer the defendant to the King for a pardon

: the jurors ought to be told in all cases that every man is to be presumed to be sane, and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction ; and that to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.

When the prosecution attempted to adduce evidence that this constituted insanity within the Rules, she changed her plea to guilty but on appeal, the Court ruled that she had been merely denying mens rea rather than raising a defence under the Rules and her conviction was quashed.

In DPP v Harper ( 1997 ) it was held that insanity is not generally a defence to strict liability offences.

::( b ) diabetes has been held to facilitate a defence of insanity when it causes hyperglycemia, but not when it causes hypoglycemia.

For example, the Irish insanity defence comprises the M ' Naghten Rules and a control test which asks whether the accused was debarred from refraining from committing the act because of a defect of reason due to mental illness ( see Doyle v Wicklow County Council 1974 ) 55 IR 71.

In cases where not guilty by reason of insanity ( NGRI ) is used as a defence in a court, it is normally accompanied by one of three legal approaches — claiming a specific alter was in control when the crime was committed ( and if that alter is considered insane ), deciding whether all ( or which ) alters may be insane, or whether only the dominant personality meets the insanity standard.

The book dealt with the criminal capacity of infants, insanity and idiocy, the defence of drunkenness, capital offences, treason, homicide and theft.

Criminal insanity – where the accused is unable to distinguish right from wrong – was then the only medical defence to murder.

The Attorney-General, Sir Hartley Shawcross KC, ( later Lord Shawcross ) led for the prosecution at Lewes Assizes, and urged the jury to reject Haigh ’ s defence of insanity because he had acted with malice aforethought.

Shirley's defence, which he conducted in person with great ability, was a plea of insanity, and it was supported by considerable evidence, but he was found guilty.

His later defence against confession was based on partial insanity, alleging that he had been troubled with Korsakoff's syndrome ( as a result of rabies inoculation ) and so his confession was not reliable.

The case is notable for Watson's use of a plea of insanity as his defence.

His defence of insanity was rejected.

Throughout the web of the English Criminal Law one golden thread is always to be seen that it is the duty of the prosecution to prove the prisoner's guilt subject to what I have already said as to the defence of insanity and subject also to any statutory exception.

The cross-examination of the defence attempted to prove his mental instability and render a not guilty plea by reason of insanity, but to little success.

In Victoria the current defence of mental impairment was introduced in the Crimes ( Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried ) Act 1997 which replaced the common law defence of insanity and indefinite detention at the governor's pleasure with the following: