Mr. Johnson Insanity Case Study

“A mental illness of such a severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot conduct her/his affairs due to psychosis, or is subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior. Insanity is distinguished from low intelligence or mental deficiency due to age or injury. If a complaint is made to law enforcement, to the District Attorney or to medical personnel that a person is evidencing psychotic behavior, he/she may be confined to a medical facility long enough (typically 72 hours) to be examined by psychiatrists who submit written reports to the local superior/county/district court. ” This is the definition of insanity, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I, Andrew Harris, am here today to convict Mr. Johnson of murdering Mr. Pete. Mr. Johnson killed Mr. Pete on October twentieth, eighteen twenty. Mr. Johnson smothered Mr. Pete with a mattress, and dismembered the body, hiding the body under the floorboards. After police arrived at the scene, Mr. Johnson admitted to killing Mr. Johnson. The defense attorney believes Mr. Johnson was insane, this is completely outrageous. Johnson was very kind to the old man the whole week he planned to murder him, he admitted to proceeding very wisely and with very much foresight and caution, he admitted to not being insane himself.

This entirely rules out crime of passion, and also rules out insanity. One could not possibly be insane if they planned for at least a week, and also changed their personality traits to murder an old man. When Mr.Johnson changed his personality, the old man was probably unsuspicious. This was a very cunning part of Mr.Johnson's plan to murder Mr.Pete. The whole week was very pleasant, and then suddenly the old man had been killed nobody suspected it, because Mr.Johnson was so cunning that he covered up all of the evidence leading to the