A vast majority of the US public views a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) as ‘beating the rap’. The defence, raised in about 1% of felonies in the US, is successful 15 to 25% of the time.
SHACKLED to a hospital bed with a self-inflicted neck wound, Marci Webber described to the police visions of demons and skeletons, but wasn’t sure what had happened to her four-year-old daughter.
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