Mark Geragos
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 16 Sep
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We're going to see this as a defense over and over again.
Hopefully this isn't a copycat situation.
Hopefully this is a woman who's suffering from, you know, some...
disconnection from reality and some psychotic state or whatever that that and she wasn't inspired by lindsey clancy that would be that would be horrible but look in illinois um it's they use the mcnaughton rule that is it's the same as in california it's one that mark and i have have dealt with our entire careers and that is a much tougher standard and the difference is
so the mcnaughton rule says basically you can be mentally ill
But the mental illness must be such that you do not understand the nature and quality of your actions when you kill.
In other words, you're howling at the moon.
The example we always use is devil pops up on your shoulder and says, go over there and kill that person or I'm going to blow up the world.
It means the person, the defendant still knows it's a human being that they're killing.
they're criminally responsible under those circumstances.
If the devil says, go stab that banana over there, that space alien, they don't understand that it's a human being.
And when they do it, they're not criminally responsible or they're legally insane.
Massachusetts uses what's called the McCool rule, which has a third prong.
And that says, if you're suffering from mental illness,
Even if you know right from wrong, if you're unable to control your conduct to the requirements of the law, you can still be found criminally not responsible is the language that they use.
So they've taken away the term insanity.
So that's the difference.
So it gives a whole a completely different kind of trial in in places that follow McCool rule, which is
Arguably, but I think what really happens in these cases, we sometimes glom onto them and say they're copycats, obviously, because it's the first thing the brain does.
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