tution. The public outcry was horrendous, which in turn attracted the attention of Queen Victoria. The Queen preceded to order the courts to come up with a better system in determining insanity. The McNaughton rule reads, "to establish a defense on grounds of insanity, it must be clearly proven that at the time of committing the act...the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or if he did know it...he did not know he was doing what was wrongâ€". (History of Standards for the Insanity Defense).
             The McNaughton rule was revised in 1954. The revision came about from the case of Monte Durham, hence the Durham rule, "Irresistible Impulse."" This rule is based on the ass
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