Isn't that how Lorraine Bobbitt pleaded? (pled?) I recall Rush once commenting that this has become a popular plea for liberal women criminals....a resounding endorsement of the Feminist movement. "I'm guilty but I'm insane so that means I'm not really guilty and so you can be lenient with me, right?"
Just to let all the ladies know, even after this news item I'm still voting Rice / Coulter in 2008 :-)
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.
MARK TWAIN