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255 documents for irresistible impulse test

- Insanity Defense
...The test to determine if a defendant can distinguish right ... the law but who cannot control their impulses to commit them. Similarly, the courts need to dete... defense (sometimes combined with the Irresistible Impulse Test, discussed below). The Irresistible I...
- Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
- Criminal Law
- Clark v. Arizona, 548 U. S. (2006)
... the victim was a police officer and testimony indicating that Clark had previously stated he wan...The volitional incapacity or irresistible-impulse test, which surfaced over two centuries ag...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Kansas v. Hendricks, 521 U.S. 346 (1997)
...Mter Hendricks testified that he agreed with the state physician's diagnosi...sexual impulses''') (quoting State ex rel. Pearson v. Probate Cour...Indeed, the notion of an "irresistible impulse" often has helped to shape criminal law's ...
- U.S. Supreme Court

- Criminal Responsibility From a Clinical Perspective
... identified with the so-called Wild Beast Test for insanity and nonresponsibility for criminal ac...This variant became known as the Irresistible Impulse Test, likely the most famous of which was ...
- Journal of Psychiatry & Law
- Vol. 37 Nbr. 1, April 2009
- Leland v. Oregon, 343 U.S. 790 (1952)
...800-801. 10. The "irresistible impulse" test of legal sanity is not "implicit in ...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Through a scanner darkly: functional neuroimaging as evidence of a criminal defendant's past mental states.
...He testified that while sitting in his car inhaling carbon mono... that the defendant suffered from an irresistible impulse, this would be immaterial in a state such ...
- Stanford Law Review
- Vol. 62 Nbr. 4, April 2010
- Foucha v. Louisiana, 504 U.S. 71 (1992)
... on the basis of, inter alia, a doctor's testimony that he had recovered from the drug induced psycho... M'Naghten test with the so-called "irresistible impulse" test, see 1 LaFave & Scott § 4.1, at 427...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Wesley Leon Harper, Defendant-Appellant., 460 F.2d 705 (5th Cir. 1972)
...Moreau, who testified that, in his opinion, Harper was sane at the time ... closing argument using the term "irresistible impulse" was prejudicial error. The point was rais...
- Federal Circuits
- A new approach to corporate criminal liability.
Symposium: Corporate Criminality: Legal, Ethical, and Managerial Implications

... of this in American law is the irresistible impulse defense that has been referenced in state ... Bazelon's short-lived but oft-discussed test, announced in Durham v. United States, (26) provid...
- American Criminal Law Review
- Vol. 44 Nbr. 4, September 2007
- Criminal madness: cultural iconography and insanity.
... DEGENERATES, SEX FIENDS, AND IRRESISTIBLE IMPULSES III. THE AGE OF HITCHCOCK: THE RISE AND D... tracing, debating, and analyzing the legal tests brought to bear by judges and juries to determine ...
- Stanford Law Review
- Vol. 61 Nbr. 6, April 2009