The Insanity Defense By Steven Steinberg - 1084 Words

While reading chapter 2 of The Insanity Defense we discussed many different versions of the insanity defense and whether or not they’re valid or not. This interested me so much that I decided to actually go online and research the most ‘insane’ ways to use the insanity defense. Within this research I found various cases where it was used and was so shocked at how bizarre almost all of them are that I decided to write a 3-page paper on it, enjoy. The first case I read about brings us all the way back to 1981. In Arizona, Steven Steinberg awakens from a sleep to find his wife stabbed to death 26 times. Steven quickly fumbles over her body to the phone and calls police immediately. He tells them his wife has been murdered in a burglary gone wrong. Upon investigation though, police discover that this was no burglary, that in fact Steven was the one who has killed his wife. Steven in a state of confusion recounts that night because he has no memory of murdering his wif e, he explains to police he had no reason to, he loved her. This case then went to trial and Steinberg told judges that he was sleepwalking at the time of the murder, and therefore not ‘sane’ during it. The jury found Steven Steinberg not guilty and he was free to go. So is sleepwalking a valid insanity defense? In my opinion yes, I believe while sleepwalking you’re in a dissociative mental state that you can’t control. When sleeping your daytime reality becomes a distorted dream, in Stevens case his wife wasShow MoreRelatedThe Murder Of Murder By Steven Steinberg Essay1695 Words   |  7 PagesIn 1981 Steven Steinberg was accused of murdering his wife Elena Steinberg by stabbing her twenty-six times in Scottsdale, Arizona (Guy, 2015). At the time of the murder, Steinberg was the one who called law enforcement to report an attempted break-in at his home, even though no signs of force entry were found at the scene. During that time, the case drew a lot of publicity in the state of Arizona; not only because it was a horrifying crime, but because it was a case that involved a murder whileRead MoreThe Ideological Concept Of Insanity Defense2313 Words   |  10 PagesThe ideological concept of an insanity defense, formerly termed â€Å"complete madness,† was originally incorporated into the English common-law jurisprudence system in the late thirteenth century of the United Kingdom as an affirmative defense for defendants under the yoke of criminal charges involving a heinous action which could involve the option of termination of a defendant’s life if adjudge guilty of such act (Hill). Through such incorporation of a legal defense, the institution of a new societalRead MoreWhen Pleaded Not Guilty By Insanity1858 Words   |  8 Pagesâ€Å"They smelled too bad† was the response when saying he would never have intercourse with the dead bodies he dug out of graves (Yoong). He pleaded not guilty by insanity. Ed Gein filled his home in Connecticut with human body parts; he assembled a suit made of human skin, a belt that was made of female nipples and a lampshade formed from a human face. Gein was interested in skinning people and also the female parts. On November 1957 Bernice Worden disappeared from her local hardware store (Yoong)Read MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 Pagestime after the death of Mao in 1976. But the modernizing leaders, who wanted to end the ideological turmoil in favor of economic and technological development, arrested her. At her trial in 1980–1981, Jiang actually helped undo the Mao myth by her defense, which focused on Mao’s arbitrariness and use of brute power: â€Å"I was Mao’s dog,† she proclaimed. â€Å"What he said to bite, I bit† (Terrill in Smith 2008, II:652). Elsewhere, women participated in the resurgence of the nationalist independence movements