insanity plea
plea of insanity

But I had more or less decided to try for an insanity plea.

He wouldn't have done that for some twenty-five-year-old insanity plea.

No, they usually cop an insanity plea or spend a few years in the pen.

And, because prosecutors accepted his insanity plea, he was not required to testify about the crime in court.

I'm not looking to get off on some insanity plea or anything like that.

It is unrelated to any possibility of an insanity plea.

Instead the focus turned to his mental state at the time of the shooting, as Lo used the insanity plea.

Henry is determined to fight for his client, maybe with an insanity plea.

That might just get you an insanity plea that'll work, but I doubt it.

In 1984, Congress sharply raised the bar for the insanity plea.