UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR DEPARTMENT OF LAW " MOOT COURT MEMORIAL" written submission on behalf of counsel for prosecution
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11 November 2012 Insanity Defense: Guilty or Not Guilty? Imagine for a moment‚ someone has just inexplicably murdered a mother or child. Imagine the rage‚ tearing you apart‚ physically making you shake or be ill. At the same time this rage is entangled and somewhat smothered by the crushing grief welling up inside of you. A thought flashes into your head‚ “I will kill the person responsible for this!” but our sanity stops that action. A persons insanity allows you to know that to actually
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Hamlet’s insanity and is it real? Early on in the play the reader is shown that Hamlet is going to act insane in order to figure out the murder of his father. Therefore‚ at random moments throughout the play‚ Hamlet will act insane in so that he can in turn retrieve more information about the death of his father. Although young and handsome Hamlet says he is feigning his madness many readers have called into question whether or not he is genuinely mad. The fact that he is indeed going mad at times
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the insanity plea‚ a few questions should be kept in mind---1. How can we be sure that a person is indeed insane (he could be putting on a show) and 2. Should a mentally ill person be punished at all. Today in our legal system‚ there are numerous amounts of defense tactics that are designed to protect the rights of the accused‚ and to further the process of justice. However‚ in many cases this augmentation of justice has been taken too far‚ and as a result‚ pleas such as “Temporary insanity” are
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The insanity defense and legality of those who were deemed insane was an important question in the nineteenth century. The question of insanity was contested because it had become a medical question in an age of rampant science. The English court formulated the most important legal definition of insanity‚ the right-or-wrong test. The high court in England ruled a defendant could be deemed insane if and only if‚ while committing the crime‚ he was “laboring under such a defect of reason‚ from disease
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Shakespeare’s hero‚ Hamlet‚ and his insanity is shown and is demonstrated in the different parts of the play. Many parts in the play points out his madness and his loss of control. Hamlet shows many mood swings throughout the play that makes him act mad and speaks like an insane. Hamlet illustrates many unclear emotions to show his insanity. We can see that there are two versions of Hamlet in the play because of the different actions. Sometimes he acts as a perfect prince and sometimes he acts as
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might was the envy of the world and American cars represented the apex of the automotive pyramid. Today‚ as GM eases into its second go-around‚ the questionable future of industry and the shifting definition of "made in America" cast a dark shadow over the car company ’s public celebration (www.dailyfinance.com). So‚ when using 2009 as the baseline year to conduct GM’s vertical analysis‚ it appears that the company had a substantial decrease in net income for 2010. However‚ it is important to understand
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has enlightened generations of readers to the insanity caused by corrupt bureaucracy and the pseudo-law of Catch-22. Heller’s creation of the pseudo law of Catch-22 shows the insanity caused by the corrupt powers of bureaucracy that overwhelm the military base and all of its contained soldiers. Catch-22 is a law of circular reasoning’s. It is introduced to them and the soldiers must live their lives according to what the "non-existent" law states. One version of the Catch-22 keeps the soldiers continuously
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themes‚ brutality‚ and unstable characters. The Tell-Tale Heart is one of his best known stories‚ involving a narrator with an irrational state of mind. The narrator takes an old man’s life‚ due to an obsession over his eye. The narrator lacks sufficient motivation for his murder‚ only that he was terrified of the old man’s eye. The narrator executes and successfully covers his murder‚ but eventually gets caught due to his own insanity. It becomes obvious that the narrator lacks principles of logic
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Many people can get insanity when going through harsh conditions. During the book many characters started giving up because they were no longer dependent over someone else. Also some people couldn’t resist the urge to die since they no lonegr found the happiness in life. It is important that you don’t go crazy when in a concentration camp. While on thier way to the new concentration camp one lady started seeing things even when they weren’t thre. For example‚ Mrs. Schachter goes crazy and starts
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