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Attesting to the insanity of Italian voters, they kept voting the same way and expecting a different result.

Justice Kennedy might have spared the country a prolonged fit of insanity by plumping the other way in Obergefell and letting voters hash out the issue themselves.

While initially convicted of first-degree murder in Worden’s death, he was eventually declared not guilty by reason of insanity — diagnosed as schizophrenic — and was institutionalized until his death due to complications from cancer in 1984.

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If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, then Dave Roberts is clearly certifiable.

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While she did kill her children, she was "not guilty of murder by reason of insanity," her lawyer said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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