is it possible in court to blame your crime(s) on drugs with an insanity plee?
2007-04-06 21:47:46 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Sure ! Why not!
Everybody blames their problems on something else.
2007-04-06 21:51:57 · answer #1 · answered by TedEx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's been tried time and time again.
Once the court appointed psychiatrists are through with you.....you haven't got a chance.
The only way you would get away with that plea is if the drugs did enough permanent damage to render you a public threat. Then you get to spend the rest of your life in the Waldorf Hysteria.
2007-04-06 21:56:08 · answer #2 · answered by Jack 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...you blame your crime on intoxication...and it would be voluntary intoxication since you chose to take drugs...There are 3 different tests that states use but the basics are that you must have been intoxicated to the point that you did not understand what you were doing and it negates the mental state required.
Drug use never raises to insanity...and the voluntary intoxication standard is difficult to meet...usually it will lower the charge not make you innocent altogether.
2007-04-07 05:34:03 · answer #3 · answered by Dr. Luv 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, it's possible! The question is ... will the jury buy it!
Personally, I believe in the "Dennis Miller principle"! If you are claiming "temporary insanity" then every once in a while ... we will dig up your victim. If they are still DEAD, then you had better be laughing like Woody Woodpecker when we pass your cell!
2007-04-06 21:58:34 · answer #4 · answered by ornery and mean 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can but i don't think you can away with it
2007-04-06 21:56:05 · answer #5 · answered by the girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋