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Statutory Burden & Admissibility Ledger
Illinois 720 ILCS 5/6-2
Illinois Criminal Code of 2012
720 ILCS 5/6-2(e)
When the affirmative defense of insanity has been presented during the trial, the burden of proof is on the defendant to prove by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant was not guilty by reason of insanity.
Affirmative Burden
On Defendant (Clear & Convincing)
Substantial Capacity Test
Appreciate Criminality of Conduct
Rule 403 Admissibility Calculus
Likely Admissible (Probative)
Highly Prejudicial (Exclude)
72% Probative Weight
Substantially Probative (Admit)
Evidentiary Theory: Media Investment as Motive/Premeditation
Prosecution filing presents defendant’s focused research into prior infant homicides as probative of conscious awareness, planning, or behavioral modeling rather than acute disassociation. Under Rule 404(b), such evidence is admissible to show absence of mistake or deliberate state-of-mind.