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People v. Drew

Californian court case

Field	Value
DecideDate	September 26
DecideYear	1978
FullName	The People, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Ronald Jay Drew, Defendant and Appellant.
Citations	; 583 P.2d 1318; 149 Cal. Rptr. 275
Holding	The M'Naghten Rules do not adequately identify legal insanity. M'Naghten Rules discarded. Model Penal Code adopted.
ChiefJudge	Rose Bird
AssociateJudges	Mathew Tobriner, Stanley Mosk, William P. Clark Jr., Frank K. Richardson, Wiley Manuel, Frank C. Newman
Majority	Tobriner
JoinMajority	Bird, Newman, Mosk
Concurrence	Mosk
Dissent	Richardson
JoinDissent	Clark, Manuel
Overruled	California Proposition 8 (1982)

People v. Drew, (1978), was a case decided by the California Supreme Court that abandoned the M'Naghten Rules of the criminal insanity defense in favor of the formulation in the Model Penal Code. The decision was later abrogated by Proposition 8 in 1982, which restored the M'Naghten rules.

References

Bonnie, R.J. et al. ''Criminal Law, Second Edition.'' Foundation Press, NY: 2004, p. 593
''The Insanity Defense''. Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 36, 1596. 2004.

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