Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...care for Miss Vaill's performance. She remains far too sane and above the action of the play, entering the games only when the script forces her to. Lacking the throughgoing cruelty of the other characters she offers nothing in its place and contributes to the dullness, soon banished, which stains the first...
...School), admitted that DeSalvo unquestionably was a sick man, but he and the prosecution psychiatrists launched a strong rebuttal to the defense contention that DeSalvo was "a completely uncontrollable vegetable walking around in a human body." The traditional Massachusetts rule for legal insanity holds that a defendant is sane unless he is unable to tell right from wrong or is governed by irresistible impulse. Both sides conceded that De-Salvo knew that what he was doing was wrong, and the prosecution relentlessly hammered away at the fact that he had taken such thoughtful precautionary measures as wearing gloves. That, argued...
After deliberating less than four hours, the jury found DeSalvo sane and guilty on all counts. For all his earlier confidence, Bailey seemed only momentarily disappointed and quickly announced his intention of appealing. He considers the Massachusetts insanity test archaic and hopes the state's Supreme Judicial Court will take the opportunity to bring it into line with less restrictive tests now applied in a number of state and federal courts. Said Bailey: "I am glad to get a shot at that foolish...
...that finding "shall in no way prejudice the accused in a plea of insanity as a defense against the crime charged." In short, he may be acquitted as legally insane at the time of his crime-but his trial itself would conceivably signify that he had since become legally sane...
...Yorker can be committed only if he is presently insane, and more dangerously ill than the minimum required by the rather loose Freeman standards. Thus, if an allegedly insane tax defendant is sane enough to stand trial, he seems unlikely to face state commitment upon his federal acquittal...