{"id":770,"date":"2007-04-01T09:07:31","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T14:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=770"},"modified":"2007-04-01T09:07:31","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T14:07:31","slug":"the-insanity-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"The Insanity Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always had a problem with defendants who plead insanity, especially in murder trials.<br \/>\nThis item from today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capecodonline.com\/cctimes\/toolanclaiming1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Cape Cod Times<\/a> made me feel a little better:<br \/>\n<em>According to a study by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2003, an insanity defense is used in less than 1 percent of all homicide cases.<br \/>\nOf those cases in which an insanity defense is used, fewer than 12 percent result in a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.<\/em><br \/>\n12 percent of 1 percent is still too many, but thank goodness it isn&#8217;t more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always had a problem with defendants who plead insanity, especially in murder trials. This item from today&#8217;s Cape Cod Times made me feel a little better: According to a study by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2003, an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=770\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}