If you did a crime, will you plead for insanity to get off the hook?

Yeah, i'd probably try to see if i could get away with it; it has often been said that my friends expect me to be committed at some point in my life so it wouldn't be too unbelievable either. Of course now if anyone found this post it would probably damage my case :S Birdie -

no. it is a frightening situation but i just can't simply do that. it is like betraying myself. a lot are getting off the hook because of money. they all pleaded insanity. sad.

Hi chiyosan! I'm not sure what I would do if I killed somebody. I'm not even sure if I'm able to do something after killing a person. I probably wouldn't have to pretend that I'm crazy. I would probably go crazy after killing a person! But for the sake of your discussion, if I'm still sane after killing a person, I don't think I would plea for insanity. I wouldn't want to be placed in a mental hospital along with other crazy people. But then again, I wouldn't want to go to prison, too. I guess I'll just kill myself. Maybe I will go to prison instead, but I will request to be alone in one cell since I have the money. I will buy one cell for myself only.

first of, you will not get to be sentenced just like that. you will be asked even before the trial starts if you are guilty or not of the crime being accused on you. this is called arraignment. at the arraignment, pleading guilty will make the possible sentence downgraded. i don't think there will be a plea to offer after the sentence is ordered and being served, but i am not quite so sure about this.

no i would own up and take responsibility for my own actions like a grown adult.

Surely will not plead for insanity. When I kill someone, it must have been quite a necessary act, because there's nothing of a killer in me. Someone must have really provoked me to act like this. So I gladly like to go to prison, for I would know I I was right.

If I committed an offense, then I would have had good reason for doing so: Some form of self-defense. And no, I would not plead insanity to get out off the hook. I am of the opinion that people who plead insanity are to be locked for life in a community, regardless of how sane they thereafter become.

No I don't think I could plead insanity because I firstly would have to live with the thought of having killed someone so that in itself would probably with time cause me to be unstable. The other reason why not is that pleading insanity is a cop out so to speak and if one does the crime, one must pay for their actions. These are all summations as I hope never to be in this type of predicament and while I would like to love free and not jailed, I don't know how a sane person can survive say in a mental institution.

It depends on the kind of crime (what is a crime/evil) I committed. You can kill someone on purpose or planned it. You can be dragged into a crime or choose for it. I think that if I commit a crime from which I know in front it is a crime it's my choice. I would not plead for insanity because it was my choice. And if I choose to do it I have a very good reason for it. I also know what will happen if it doesn't go the way I planned it (I assume that is not to go to prison or so). So no I would not plead insanity I also don't think anyone will believe me if I would do so.

I think getting off the hook would do us an injustice. If we had a good reason for our crime whatever it might be then we just need to face the wrong we have done but if we have little or no reason then perhaps it is true that our act is insane. So, to answer the question I think depends on the person. I think some crimes are an act of insanity so if it was terrible I would go with the insanity plea because there is something wrong with me. However, if I did something like counter fitting, making money that is illegal currency and spent it on things that helped others pay their bills, create new jobs and even gave some of it to charity I would choose jail time because I am not delusional or suffering from insanity - I am just having a good time. Laughing here! :-)