Editing Insanity defense (section)

=====''Durham/New Hampshire test''=====
The strict M'Naghten standard for the insanity defense was widely used until the 1950s and the case of ''[[Durham v. United States (1954)|Durham v. United States]]'' case.<ref name="hottop"/> In the ''Durham'' case, the court ruled that a defendant is entitled to acquittal if the crime was the ''product of'' their mental illness (i.e., crime would not have been committed but for the disease). The [[Durham rule]], also called the Product Test, is broader than either the M'Naghten test or the [[irresistible impulse test]]. The test has more lenient guidelines for the insanity defense, but it addressed the issue of convicting mentally ill defendants, which was allowed under the M'Naghten Rule.<ref name="M'Naghten's case"/> However, the Durham standard drew much criticism because of its expansive definition of legal insanity. It was abandoned in the 1970s, after the case of ''[[United States v. Brawner]]'' (1972).<ref>{{cite court |litigants=United States v. Brawner |vol=471 |reporter=F.2d |opinion=969 |pinpoint= |court=D.C. Cir. |date=1972 |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/471/969/259681/ |accessdate=2017-11-03 |quote=}}</ref>