TIL U.S. Senator Daniel Sickles was acquitted of murder in 1859 after killing his wife’s lover—by using the first successful temporary insanity defence in U.S. legal history.

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TIL U.S. Senator Daniel Sickles was acquitted of murder in 1859 after killing his wife’s lover—by using the first successful temporary insanity defence in U.S. legal history.

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