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United States federal laws governing offenders with mental diseases or defects (18 U.S.C. §§ 4241–4248) provide for the evaluation and handling of defendants who are suspected of having mental diseases or defects.
As an alternative to the insanity defense, some jurisdictions permit a defendant to plead guilty but mentally ill. [55] A defendant who is found guilty but mentally ill may be sentenced to mental health treatment, at the conclusion of which the defendant will serve the remainder of their sentence in the same manner as any other defendant.
However, there must be a formal institutional hearing, the prisoner must be found to be dangerous to himself or others, the prisoner must be diagnosed with a serious mental illness, and the mental health care professional must state that the medication prescribed is in the prisoner's best interest. 14th 1992 Riggins v. Nevada
In April, Maskiell entered a plea of guilty but mentally ill, meaning that he will get mental health treatment while incarcerated until a medical professional decides treatment isn’t necessary ...
The jury also found Dorsey guilty but mentally ill in the attempted murder and confinement of his then-girlfriend. On Apr. 9, 2020, ...
A 62-year-old woman with the mental capacity of a child has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to stabbing her ex-boyfriend to death in August 2020 in the apartment they still shared at the Boston ...
On December 11, 2017, Damian McElrath was found guilty but mentally ill by a jury on the charge of felony murder and aggravated assault, but not guilty on the charge of malice murder due to insanity. Both charges are related to one episode where McElrath stabbed his adoptive mother, Diane McElrath, 50 times until her death.
A report produced by Killian earlier this year determined that Reed was "guilty but mentally ill" of the Jan. 4, 2022, incident in which Silas was stabbed 43 times and struck with a sledgehammer.