All assignments should be typed, double-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font, and between 350-500 words.  Your responses should be thorough and concise. Students should use at least two references cited as evidence to support their answers. 

When providing your answers, please be sure to always use documentation from the text or other sources to support your answer. All sources must be cited appropriately.

You may use the following resources to complete the assignment:

Criminal Law, University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing edition, 2015

Assignment:

Jeffrey is diagnosed with schizophrenia. For fifteen years, Jeffrey kidnaps, tortures, kills, and eats human victims. Jeffrey avoids detection by hiding his victims’ corpses in various locations throughout the city. If the jurisdiction in which Jeffrey commits these crimes recognizes the M’Naghten insanity defense, can Jeffrey successfully plead and prove insanity? Why or why not?