`` If we cannot tell evil, horror, and insanity from nonsense, what is the future of humor and comedy ''??

It is also possible that a reference to the insanity of Nebuchadnezzar is to be found in the cuneiform text: BM 34113.

* 1859 – Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity.

The downside of this is that prolonged exposure causes hallucinations, and in some cases, insanity.

She is overwhelmed by having her unfulfilled love for him so abruptly terminated and drifts into the oblivion of insanity.

In criminal trials, the insanity defense is where the defendant claims they are not responsible for their actions due to mental health problems ( psychiatric illness or mental handicap ).

In the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States, use of the defense is rare ; however, since the Criminal Procedure ( Insanity and Unfitness to Plead ) Act 1991, insanity pleas have steadily increased in the UK.

The insanity defense is based on evaluations by forensic mental health professionals with the appropriate test according to the jurisdiction.

A defendant claiming insanity is pleading " not guilty by reason of insanity " ( NGRI ) or " guilty but insane / mentally ill " in some jurisdictions which, if successful, may result in the defendant being committed to a psychiatric facility for an indeterminate period.

Diminished responsibility or diminished capacity can be employed as a mitigating factor or partial defense to crimes and, in the United States, is applicable to more circumstances than the insanity defense.

A plea of diminished capacity is different from a plea of insanity in that " reason of insanity " is a full defense while " diminished capacity " is merely a plea to a lesser crime.

In the United States, a trial in which the insanity defense is invoked typically involves the testimony of psychiatrists or psychologists who will, as expert witnesses, present opinions on the defendant's state of mind at the time of the offense.

The GBMI verdict is available as an alternative to, rather than in lieu of, a " not guilty by reason of insanity " verdict.

The insanity plea is used in the U. S Criminal Justice System in less than 1 % of all criminal cases.

The insanity defense is also complicated because of the underlying differences in philosophy between psychologists and legal professionals.

In the United States, a psychologist ( or other mental health professional ) is often consulted as an expert witness in insanity cases, but the ultimate legal judgment of the defendant's sanity is determined by a jury, not by a psychologist.

In a majority of states, the burden is placed on the defendant, who must prove insanity by a preponderance of the evidence.

are the result of drug use, insanity, or the effects of Zampanò's writing itself.

Popular themes of the genre include murder, suicide, depression, abuse, mutilation, war, barbarism, drug abuse, terminal illness, domestic violence, sexual violence, paedophilia, insanity, nightmare, disease, racism, homophobia, sexism, disability ( both physical and mental ), chauvinism, corruption, and crime.

The songs ' themes dealt with such issues as political corruption (" Thieves "); cultural violence (" So What "); environmental degradation, and nuclear war (" Breathe "); drug addiction (" Burning Inside "); and insanity (" Cannibal Song ").

Their tenth album, Virus, contains themes more typical of death metal such as violence, the horrors of reality, insanity, torture, war, drug addiction, and emotional strife.

He charged that Forrestal, awakened by the sound of a fire siren ( on the night of April 1 at Hobe Sound ), had rushed out of his cottage screaming, “ The Russians are attacking .” He defined Forrestal ’ s condition as “ temporary insanity .” In subsequent newspaper columns he asserted that Forrestal made three suicide attempts while in Florida — by drug overdose, by hanging, and by slashing his wrists.

The local police authorities claim that she was a drug addict who hanged herself with her jeans in a moment of temporary insanity.

It systematically contradicted claims made by the U. S. Treasury Department that smoking marijuana results in insanity, deteriorates physical and mental health, assists in criminal behavior and juvenile delinquency, is physically addictive, and is a " gateway " drug to more dangerous drugs.

Even with such a motivation, it would be difficult to get Manion cleared of murder, so Biegler pushes him into a position where he claims to have no memory of the event, thus giving them a chance of winning his freedom with a defense of irresistible impulse — a version of a temporary insanity defense.

In his fit of insanity he killed his son, whom he mistook for a stock of mature ivy, and Ambrosia, who was transformed into the grapevine.

Otherwise, for the benefit of the wicked, it was more proper to set a limit for their rage by my silence, rather than any new things written to provoke daily the insanity of the envious.

About 2 percent were denied admission to the U. S. and sent back to their countries of origin for reasons such as having a chronic contagious disease, criminal background, or insanity.

Typically, experts are relied on for opinions on severity of injury, degree of insanity, cause of failure in a machine or other device, loss of earnings, care costs, and the like.

He wrote at least 100 plays for the Grand Guignol and collaborated with experimental psychologist Alfred Binet to create plays about insanity, one of the theater's frequently recurring themes.

Due to a combination of ( 1 ) the traditions of dynastic succession in Aragon, which permitted maternal inheritance with no precedence for female rule ; ( 2 ) the insanity of Charles's mother, Joanna of Castile ; and ( 3 ) the insistence by his remaining grandfather, Maximilian I, that he take up his royal titles, Charles initiated his reign in Castile and Aragon, a union which evolved into Spain, in conjunction with his mother.

From the early 17th century, the play was famous for its ghost and vivid dramatisation of melancholy and insanity, leading to a procession of mad courtiers and ladies in Jacobean and Caroline drama.

During a battle between Corvus and Morcalavin, Corvus switches the false tome for his real one, curing Morcalavin ’ s insanity and ending the plague.

Mitigating factors, including things not eligible for the insanity defense like intoxication ( or, more frequently, diminished capacity ), may lead to reduced charges or reduced sentences.

Ct. 1997 ), for example, the petitioner who had originally been found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed for ten years to the jurisdiction of a Psychiatric Security Review Board filed a pro se writ of habeas corpus and the court vacated his insanity acquittal.

2004 ), the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit the court ruled persons found not guilty by reason of insanity and later want to challenge their confinement may not attack their initial successful insanity defense:

However, in colonial America a delusional Dorothy Talbye was hanged in 1638 for murdering her daughter, as at the time Massachusetts's common law made no distinction between insanity ( or mental illness ) and criminal behavior.

The M ' Naghten Rules of 1843 were not a codification or definition of insanity but rather the responses of a panel of judges to hypothetical questions posed by Parliament in the wake of Daniel M ' Naghten's acquittal for the homicide of Edward Drummond, whom he mistook for British Prime Minister Robert Peel.

A criminal defendant may plead insanity in federal court, and in the state courts of every state except for Idaho, Kansas, Montana, and Utah.

Each state and the federal court system currently uses one of the following " tests " to define insanity for purposes of the insanity defense:

The first official attempt was the 1840 census which used a single category, " idiocy / insanity ".

In the first through sixth edition of Kraepelin's influential psychiatry textbook, there was a section on moral insanity, which meant then a disorder of the emotions or moral sense without apparent delusions or hallucinations, and which Kraepelin defined as ' lack or weakness of those sentiments which counter the ruthless satisfaction of egotism '.

During his trial, nine witnesses testified to the fact that he was insane, and the jury acquitted him, finding him " not guilty by reason of insanity.

The strict M ' Naghten standard for the insanity defense was used until the 1950s and the Durham v. United States case.

The test has much more lenient guideline for the insanity defense, but it addressed the issue of convicting mentally ill defendants, which was allowed under the M ' Naghten Rule.

After the perpetrator of President Reagan's assassination attempt was found not guilty by reason of insanity, Congress passed the Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1984.

The notion of temporary insanity argues that a defendant was insane, but is now sane.

The French king at the time of Joan's birth, Charles VI, suffered bouts of insanity and was often unable to rule.

Percy Redwood created a scandal in New Zealand in 1909 when he was found to be Amy Bock, who had married a woman from Port Molyneaux ; newspapers argued whether it was a sign of insanity or an inherent character flaw.

Historically, insanity was initially seen as grounds for leniency.

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

765, the test for insanity was expressed in the following terms

: 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.

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 ).

As an example of a contrasting interpretation in which defendant lacking knowledge that the act was morally wrong meets the M ' Naghten standards, we have the instructions the judge is required to provide to the jury in cases in New York State where the defendant has raised an insanity plea as a defense: