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Geyser, who will be 22 in May, has remained at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute since she was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect in 2017 in the Slender Man attempted murder case for the 2014 knife attack on a friend, Payton Leutner.
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Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2024
In January 2023, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
—Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024
The Washington County teen charged with killing a family's 8-year-old Chihuahua entered a plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect on Feb. 28 in Waukesha County Circuit Court, according to online court records.
—Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
Jimenez, 20 at the time of the killings, entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
The man accused of killing an L.A. deputy pleads not guilty by reason of insanity.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
Countervailing duties are imposed when material injury or the threat of material injury exists by reason of subsidized imports.
—Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Charged in San Diego Superior Court, Logan has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Feb. 2024
According to the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, as of 2014, only around 7,000 people found not guilty by reason of insanity were confined in psychiatric hospitals (by comparison, the U.S. prison population is more than 1.2 million).
—Molly Langmuir, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2024
Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2024
In January 2023, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity.
—Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024
The Washington County teen charged with killing a family's 8-year-old Chihuahua entered a plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect on Feb. 28 in Waukesha County Circuit Court, according to online court records.
—Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
Jimenez, 20 at the time of the killings, entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2024
The man accused of killing an L.A. deputy pleads not guilty by reason of insanity.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
Countervailing duties are imposed when material injury or the threat of material injury exists by reason of subsidized imports.
—Dan Ikenson, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
Charged in San Diego Superior Court, Logan has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Feb. 2024
According to the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, as of 2014, only around 7,000 people found not guilty by reason of insanity were confined in psychiatric hospitals (by comparison, the U.S. prison population is more than 1.2 million).
—Molly Langmuir, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2024
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“By reason of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20reason%20of. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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