Baranyai: Under intoxication defence, society still needs protection

The “temporary insanity” defence is nothing if not sensational. Innovative applications stretch from the acquittal in 1859 of Daniel Sickles – a U.S. Congressman who staked out his wife’s lover in Lafayette Square, shot him three times, then surrendered himself – to the even more notorious trial of Lorena Bobbitt, a battered wife who mutilated her husband with a kitchen knife. Read More