![]() ![]() "sound of mind"), and a euphemistic term for insanity is "non compos mentis". Another Latin phrase related to our current concept of sanity is " compos mentis" (lit. From this perspective, insanity can be considered as poor health of the mind, not necessarily of the brain as an organ (although that can affect mental health), but rather refers to defective function of mental processes such as reasoning. Juvenal's phrase mens sana in corpore sano is often translated to mean a "healthy mind in a healthy body". In English, the word "sane" derives from the Latin adjective sanus meaning "healthy". In medicine, the general term psychosis is used to include the presence of delusions and/or hallucinations in a patient and psychiatric illness is " psychopathology", not mental insanity. In contemporary usage, the term insanity is an informal, un-scientific term denoting "mental instability" thus, the term insanity defense is the legal definition of mental instability. Conceptually, mental insanity also is associated with the biological phenomenon of contagion (that mental illness is infectious) as in the case of copycat suicides. Insanity can manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person or persons becoming a danger to themselves or to other people. Insanity, madness, lunacy, and craziness are behaviors performed by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Vuichard was arrested and was found competent to stand trial in December 2021 following a preliminary examination that included testimony from the medical examiner, police and one of Tanya Vuichard's co-workers, who spoke of stalker-type behavior that included Vincent Vuichard driving around the school checking on his wife.Īccording to the Michigan criminal procedure code, being deemed legally insane "is an affirmative defense to a prosecution for a criminal offense that the defendant was legally insane when he or she committed the acts constituting the offense."Ĭontact reporter Susan Bromley at or 51.Engraving of the eighth print of A Rake's Progress, depicting inmates at Bedlam Asylum, by William Hogarth Tanya Vuichard was indeed inside, dead from a slashed throat. When they asked Vuichard what was in it, he responded, "My wife." ![]() ![]() Vuichard initially told police he and his wife had "got into it" and that she was out running errands, but upstairs, police found a comforter rolled up on the bathroom floor. Police knocked on the door for several minutes that morning, and when Vincent Vuichard finally answered the door, deputies observed scratches on his face and blood on his shoe. The woman had not reported to work at Novi Community Schools, where she had been a beloved, responsible employee for two decades. Oakland County Sheriff's deputies responded to the Vuichards' Commerce Township home May 17, 2021, in response to a request for a welfare check on Tanya Vuichard. Gracey did not return calls for comment, nor did the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office. Online court records indicate Vuichard has been held without bond since being charged. Judith Gracey, Vuichard's attorney, filed notice May 8 of Vuichard's "intent to rely on insanity defense" in his trial. May 16 in front of Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Jacob Cunningham. When he heads to trial next month charged with open murder, facing up to life in prison, he and his lawyer plan to introduce an insanity defense.Ī pre-trial conference is planned at 1:30 p.m. PONTIAC - Nearly two years ago, Vincent Vuichard allegedly killed his wife Tanya after the two "got into it." ![]()
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