TABLE 1.
Case | Year | Charge | Defense | Court ruling |
State vs. Milligan | 1978 | Rape, murder | NGRI-DID | Evidence of DID. The court found her non-guilty |
State vs. Maxwell | 1979 | Murder | NGRI-DID | Evidence of DID. The court found her non-guilty and the patient sent to a psychiatric hospital |
State vs. Grimsley | 1982 | Driving while intoxicated | NGRI-DID | The court found her guilty as the actions of a person with multiple identity are conscious and voluntary |
State vs. Maxwell | 1988 | Bank robbery | NGRI-DID | The court found her guilty due to the replication of a criminal act |
State vs. Moore | 1988 | Murder | NGRI-DID | The court found her guilty and rejected the diagnosis of DID due to the fact that both of her personalities (host and the alter) knew about the crime and actually took an action |
State vs. Huskey | 1992 | Rape, murder | NGRI-DID | The court found him guilty for rape. The murder trial was declared mistrial in 1999 |
Commonwealth vs. Orndorff | 2000 | Murder | NGRI-DID | The court denied a motion for a new trial by a defendant to present the evidence of the DID diagnosed after the conclusion of the guilt phase of the original trial |