What is the test for determining whether a defendant was sane at the time of the trial?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Hendricks, 11 Cal.App.4th 126, 13 Cal.Rptr.2d 719 (Cal. App. 1992):

"On the day set for sentencing, the parties reminded the court that a sanity hearing had not been conducted immediately after the guilt phase, as required by [ ] section 190.1, subdivision (c). Over defendant's objection that the same jury must determine all the issues in a capital trial, the court empaneled a new jury to decide the issue of sanity alone. After deliberations that spanned 11 days the jurors reported they were hopelessly deadlocked, and a mistrial was declared. Over defendant's further objection, the court then called back the original jurors--who had been discharged more than five months earlier--and reempaneled them without examining them itself or allowing voir dire by the parties. This jury returned a verdict that defendant was sane at the time of the crimes charged. Thereupon the court imposed the sentence of death." (People v. Hendricks (1987) 43 Cal.3d 584, 588-589, 238 Cal.Rptr. 66, 737 P.2d 1350.)

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