Commonwealth v. Herd

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \The weight of authority in this country recognizes an insanity defense that is based on a mental disease or defect produced by long-term substance abuse.\
• defendant need not know he had mental disease or defect so long as he knew intoxication from voluntary cocaine consumption caused or might cause him to beat someone
• “We are unwilling, in order to justify a homicide conviction, to permit the moral fault inherent in the unlawful consumption of drugs to substitute for the moral fault that is absent in one who lacks criminal responsibility.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).