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INSANITY PLEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does insanity plea mean?
• INSANITY PLEA (noun)
The noun INSANITY PLEA has 1 sense:
1. (criminal law) a plea in which the defendant claims innocence due to mental incompetence at the time
Familiarity information: INSANITY PLEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(criminal law) a plea in which the defendant claims innocence due to mental incompetence at the time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
insanity plea; plea of insanity
Hypernyms ("insanity plea" is a kind of...):
plea ((law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer))
Domain category:
criminal law (the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment)
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