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. 2022 Aug 9;13:891941. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.891941

TABLE 1.

Court cases where DID was claimed as a basis for NGRI.

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