Zombie Attacks / Insanity Plea

Recently, a bizarre rash of crimes have occurred dealing with individuals eating parts of other individual’s bodies. These “zombie” attacks are odd to say the least, however, legally, one must ask, are these individuals legally insane? Could they use this as a defense? Not Guilty by reason of Insanity? Here is a recent news article that explores one of those specific cases (NOTE: Infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer who ate parts of his victims was found criminally responsible, the court rejected his insanity defense). Please see reading material at:http://e.standard.net/stories/2012/06/19/accused-brain-eating-cannibal-moved-mental-hospital

Explain in a 1 page discussion why you do or do not think these individuals will have a successful insanity defense and make sure to apply the necessary elements of insanity to your answer.

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Explain in a 1 page discussion why you do or do not think these individuals will have a successful insanity defense

Insanity defense helps a mentally ill individual to avoid being imprisoned for any crime because he or she may be unable to differentiate wrong and right. For this reason, I think that these individuals may have a successful insanity defense because they are taken for medical checkup to prove them guilty or not. Therefore, they may be treated carefully because they may be having mental problems in order to provide enoug…

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