MNaghtens Case Study

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He used the defense of insanity at trial. The Defendant while being arrested confessed to the police that he had traveled to London to murder the Prime Minister as he had been instructed. The reason for murdering the Prime Minister he gave was the Tories, the Conservative Party supporters in the United Kingdom, in his city followed and persecuted him wherever he went and destroyed his peace of mind. He added that they eventually wanted to murder him (De Fabrique, 2011). The defense counsel in the case argued on the basis of insanity claiming that the defendant was obsessed with delusions and suffered from acute insanity. The M’Nghale case had a great impact in modern law today and has been adopted by many states in the United States and has been enshrined in the criminal laws of countries like Canada and Austria.

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