People v. Wright

LEE, Justice.

The defendant, Michael Joseph Wright, was charged with the first degree murder of a child, and he entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. After a trial to the court on the issue of the defendant’s sanity, the court entered its order finding the defendant not guilty by reason of insanity. The People bring this appeal of the judgment, 1 arguing that the evidence was insufficient, as a matter of law, to support the trial court’s finding of insanity, and that the court improperly considered evidence that the defendant suffered from a minimal brain dysfunction in reaching…