A primary purpose of the American Law Institute guidelines for defining the insanity defense was to
A) avoid specifying symptoms of mental illness that might later become obsolete.
B) be more specific and informative to lay jurors.
C) allow greater leeway for expert witnesses to define the concept of mental illness.
D) open the defense to the full range of mental illnesses.
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Q1: Insanity defense trials typically involve
A)considerable flexibility in
Q2: Some version of the insanity defense has
Q3: The definition of "insanity" comes from _
A)psychologists.
B)the
Q4: The philosophical ideal of the U.S.government is
Q6: If the person can be found legally
Q7: George killed his two children because he
Q8: When the person did not know the
Q9: The M'Naghten rule states that the insanity
Q10: A major result of the Insanity Defense
Q11: The insanity defense is used in less
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