[goldstategop]

Exactly. One can make a good case Charles Whitman was insane. A jury would have found him not guilty by reason of insanity.

[harpseal]

IMHO those cases where criminal behavior can be directly tied to a physical brain abnormality might well be a legitimate aquital by reason of insanity. Whitman may not have been aquitted because teh abnormality may not have shown with the diagnostic tests of the time.