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The insanity plea is a legal idea saying a defendant is not legally responsible for a crime due to being insane at the time the crime was committed. This idea of an insanity plea is completely a legal concept and has little to do with psychology. Just about every state has it's own ideas of what legal insanity is. The major commonality, among the states views on legal insanity, is a standard known as the M'Naghten rule. The M'Naghten rule states: "The person who committed the unlawful act was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of mind, as to not 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." TO GET INVOLVED The City Council meets 7:30 p.m.
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