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The Influence Of The Mcnaughton Rules
The McNaughton rules were used to decide if a crime was committed by someone who was deemed to be insane at the time of their crime. McNaughton rules were so named after Daniel McNaughton who attempted to kill the current Prime Minister as he had an imaginary grudge against him but for no real reason, just his “state of mind” at the time had led him to believe that so he was found “not guilty by reason of insanity”
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