Gnizmo on 04 March 2009
Stof has hit this right on the head. The insatity plea works in less than 1% of all cases that attempt it. This is an excruciatingly hard defense to mount, and is normally ill-advised. This is not a way to be proven innocent. This is a way to get locked into an insane asylum for longer than yuo would have been in prison. On average you can expect to spend ~50% more time in an asylum than you would have spent in jail for the exact same crime.
