Usually means: Legal defense based on mental incapacity.
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  1. Insanity defense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  2. Insanity defense: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. insanity defense: Law.com Dictionary
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  4. Insanity Defense: Legal dictionary

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  3. insanity defense: Medical dictionary

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  1. insanity defense, Insanity defense: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Insanity defense)

noun:  The insanity defense, also known as the mental disorder defense, is an affirmative defense by excuse in a criminal case, arguing that the defendant is not responsible for their actions due to a psychiatric disease at the time of the criminal act.

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