Kahler vs Kansas
The crime that Kahler is being charged for.
What is killing his ex-wife, her mother, and the couple's two daughters?
A legal term to describe mental illness that excuses criminal liability by impairing men rea.
What is insanity?
Test that determines the defendant was unable to control their conduct even though they were aware what they were doing was wrong.
What is the irresistible impulse test?
The defendant who's case was seen as the death of the insanity defense.
Jeffrey Dahmer
This group is responsible for proving insanity.
The standard that Kansas requires for using mental illness as a partial defense.
What is the intent to commit the crime?
The plea those convicted of a crime but with severe mental illness can use as an excuse for the commission of said crime.
Not guilty by reason of insanity
Test that determines that the criminal act was a product of the defendant's mental illness.
What is the Durham Rule?
The murderer who claimed a black dog told him to kill.
Who is David Berkowitz or The Son of Sam?
The guilty act.
Actus Reus
The amendments that Kahler claims to support an insanity defense.
What are the 8th and 14th Amendments?
Intention or knowledge of wrongdoing that constitutes part of a crime.
What is mens rea?
Everyone is presumed sane, they are responsible for their acts.
What is the M'Naghten Rule?
The man who was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan.
John Hinckley Jr.
What is the insanity reform act?
Kahler was found (guilty or not guilty) for his crimes.
What is guilty?
The fundamental component of a crime that can't be proven for the insane?
What is criminal intent?
Which test was criticized after John Hinckley Jr.'s acquittal?
What is the Model Penal Code?
Who is Kenneth Bianchi or The Hillside Strangler?
The standard of insanity was called this in the 12th to 15th centuries.
What is madness
The mental illness Kahler claims to be suffering from.
What is severe depression?
Percent of people who use the plea of not guilty by reason of insanity
What is 1%?
Test that combines the right-wrong test with the irresistible impulse test.
What is the substantial capacity test?
Defendant who's case helped establish the difference between insanity and incompetence. ***
Who is Ezra Pound?
True or false:
Mental illness predicts violence
False