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The Insanity Plea Is A Common Thing

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The insanity plea is a very rare but very often used plea in court. Many people try to get away with their crimes by pleading not guilty for reason of insanity but very rarely do people get by with it. There have been many tests and rules made since the insanity plea became a common thing. With every test, people would find loop holes and way through the system. The test we currently use is very specific and very hard to pass by and that is why so many people cannot plead guilty for reason of insanity.
I personally, do not believe in the insanity plea and I do not think it should be constitutional. It is a way for people with mental illnesses to get away with illegal actions. I believe that if a mentally ill person commits a crime, especially ones of murder, they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it because they are mentally ill. They should have to do their time, just like everybody else. If not prison, I believe they should spend quite a bit of time in a psychiatric hospital because if we just let mentally ill criminals go, not guilty, or even from prison, there is no guarantee that they won’t commit the crime because they are going to think it is okay. To stop another criminal action from happening, they should be kept in a mental hospital until they are cleared to go. In the video, the man said that people would find loop holes in the system with the insanity plea by using their drug addictions to plead not guilty for reason of insanity (Evolution of the

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