Procedure after Insanity Plea

[krutt519]

Jurisdiction

New York

If a schizophrenic commits a murder and takes a plea of Not Guilty by reason of insanity, what follows?

 

[adjusterjack]

A trial.

 

[army judge]

If a schizophrenic commits a murder and takes a plea of Not Guilty by reason of insanity, what follows?

If the offender is allowed to cop to a plea of NGRI, he or she will end up being committed to an institution for the "criminally insane", ordered to participate in treatment for the disease for a very long time!

 

[Highwayman]

If a schizophrenic commits a murder and takes a plea of Not Guilty by reason of insanity, what follows?

Let me guess... you're writing a book? Making a movie?