My relatives is pleading insanity at the advice of his criminal defense lawyer when he is not insane. How will this work out?

It won’t let her off the hook for what she’s done, but it will play a small factor in the sentence she receives. By pleading insanity, most individuals are usually trying to show that at the time of the crime, they had diminished mental capacity where they could not distinguish between right or wrong. These lapses are typically temporary insanity defenses that a defendant will introduce, such as being extremely intoxicated, or delusional from taking medication or medication being withheld. Normally, the full “insanity defense” does not apply, because most juries and judges do not buy that a person just all of a sudden becomes completely insane. By pleading insanity in a temporary instance, it will become a “mitigating factor” that can lower the sentence your relative receives. By accepting an insanity plea, your relative will likely be committed to a state hospital for treatment in lieu of a jail sentence.