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Originally Posted by Carmina
There should be in a just legal system, but my understanding is this plea is only usually accepted in the case of murder trials (and even then as we can see it is abused).
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This is absolutely not true in my state, where you can plead guilty except for insanity on many charges.
You do open yourself up to the possibility of spending more time in the state hospital and under strict supervision afterwards than you might in prison/jail though if you go with a plea deal.