Insanity Defense Paper
Insanity Defense Paper
A person is not responsible for criminal act if such behavior was a result of mental disease or defect and if the defendant did not have any significant opportunity to assess the unlawfulness of his conduct or to subordinate his behavior requirements of the law.
Stu Dents cannot be not subject to criminal liability due to the fact that at the time of committing a socially dangerous act, he was insane, that is, could not be aware of his actions or control them due to chronic mental illness, disturbances of mental activity.
During the arrest Stu Dents could not distinguish a policeman from an alien, and referred to himself as a God, which is clearly a sign of insanity. The defendant’s possessions found in his apartment indicate mental problems that go way back. The defendant’s journal contained references to aliens, God, and the end of the world (“State v. Stu Dents”).
The other important indicator of a mental disorder is the possession of drugs. Although Stu Dents showed no trace of illegal drugs at the time of arrest it is proven that drugs can influence the brain even after a long period after the point they are taken. One of the discoveries of L. Ron Hubbard, which was confirmed in the course of research, is that the remnants of drugs and other poisons are stuck in the fatty tissues of the body and are stored there even after many years after they are received (2004). These residues can continue to have a negative impact on a person after a long time after the action of the drug usage has been ceased. Therefore we can conclude that Su Dents insanity might have been caused by using ecstasy, cocaine, methamphetamine some time ago.
A prerequisite of criminal liability is the existence of guilt, i.e. intent or negligence of a person who has committed a socially dangerous act. The defendant is mentally diseased, therefore unable to recognize the nature of actions committed by him or to evaluate its social significance, and is not able to control his actions because of the insanity, cannot act deliberately or inadvertently in the criminal law sense.
References
“State v. Stu Dents”. CJA/305.
Hubbard, L. R. (2004). Answers to Drugs. Bridge Publications.
