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  2. M'Naghten rules - Wikipedia

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    The M'Naghten rule (s) (pronounced, and sometimes spelled, McNaughton) is a legal test defining the defence of insanity, first formulated by House of Lords in 1843. It is the established standard in UK criminal law, [1] : 5 and versions have also been adopted in some US states (currently or formerly), [2] and other jurisdictions, either as case ...

  3. Irresistible impulse - Wikipedia

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    In criminal law, irresistible impulse is a defense by excuse, in this case some sort of insanity, in which the defendant argues that they should not be held criminally liable for their actions that broke the law, because they could not control those actions, even if they knew them to be wrong. [1] It was added to the M'Naghten rule as a basis ...

  4. Prairie madness - Wikipedia

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    Prairie madness or prairie fever was an affliction that affected settlers in the Great Plains during the migration to, and settlement of, the Canadian Prairies and the Western United States in the nineteenth century. Settlers moving from urbanized or relatively settled areas in the East faced the risk of mental breakdown caused by the harsh ...

  5. Insanity defense - Wikipedia

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    The insanity defense, also known as the mental disorder defense, is an affirmative defense by excuse in a criminal case, arguing that the defendant is not responsible for their actions due to a psychiatric disease at the time of the criminal act. This is contrasted with an excuse of provocation, in which the defendant is responsible, but the ...

  6. Durham rule - Wikipedia

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    Durham rule. A Durham rule, product test, or product defect rule is a rule in a criminal case by which a jury may determine a defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity because a criminal act was the product of a mental disease. Examples in which such rules were articulated in common law include State v.

  7. Clark v. Arizona - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Const. amend. XIV; Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 13-502 (A) Clark v. Arizona, 548 U.S. 735 (2006), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the constitutionality of the insanity defense used by Arizona . The Court affirmed the murder conviction of a man with paranoid schizophrenia for killing a police officer.

  8. Far Cry - Wikipedia

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    Premise and gameplay. The main Far Cry games are first-person shooters (FPS) with action-adventure elements. Whereas the first Far Cry and its spin-offs/remakes were typical FPS with discrete levels, Far Cry 2 and the subsequent games have adapted an open world-style of gameplay, with main story and side missions and optional quests to complete.

  9. ALI rule - Wikipedia

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    The ALI rule, or American Law Institute Model Penal Code rule, is a recommended rule for instructing juries how to find a defendant in a criminal trial is not guilty by reason of insanity. [1] : 614–5 It broadened the M'Naghten rule of whether a defendant was so mentally ill that he is unable to "know" the nature and quality of his criminal ...