People v. Schmidt
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people-v-schmidt-212-2679804
title:
People v. Schmidt
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People v Schmidt, 216 N.Y. 324 (1915), is a criminal case interpreting "wrong" in the M'Naghten rule for an insanity defense. The M'naghten rule included that a person was not guilty because of insanity if, because of a mental disorder, the defendant was not able to know her act was wrong. The court interpreted "wrong" to refer to knowledge the act was morally wrong, not knowledge that it was legally wrong. The court wrote, "The [M'Naghten] court expressly held that a defendant who knew nothing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Schmidt
date created:
2016-10-09T16:18:17Z
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2024-09-12T05:22:21Z
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