I don't know how other countries work, but pleading "insanity" in Canada means you're asking for your trial to be postponed until such time that you are no longer insane. It isn't a "get out of jail free" card, it's a "get treatment so you can plead your case coherently and rationally" card. (And it's only allowed if you are not mentally competent at the time of making the plea, IIRC.)
Fenspace might be different - the setting does run on a lot of tropes that bear only a passing resemblance to reality, after all.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Fenspace might be different - the setting does run on a lot of tropes that bear only a passing resemblance to reality, after all.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012