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Not guilty by reason of insanity (not knowing right from wrong)

Is the ‘Hollywood Fire Devil’ Insane? (Natasha Vargas-Cooper, MEL, ) It takes a lot to prove you’re crazy in a court of law. If you plead not guilty by reason of insanity, you have roughly a 1 percent chance of getting

the jury to agree. By legal standards, the question of insanity is not whether or not you are sane, but whether a mental illness made it impossible for you to tell right from wrong. Jurors couldn’t decide whether the L.A. arsonist could tell right from wrong
Insanity Defense (Findlaw)
Did 12 Angry Men get it wrong? (A.V. Club)
The John Hinckley Trial & Its Effect on the Insanity Defense (Kimberly Collins, Gabe Hinkebein, and Staci Schorgl, ), subfile of The John Hinckley Trial, Famous Trials homepage of University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Law

STATE vs. Hurst (Leagle)
The PEOPLE v. Hurst (JUSTIA, U.S. Law)
Death By Fire (Frontline, interview with Gerald Hurst, arson investigator). Discusses the Willingham and the Willis cases.

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