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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

• INSANITY PLEA (noun)

Sense 1

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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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