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inlawrev-27136	Price, Hannah	Shattered Brains in Shackles: The Future of Mentally Ill Defendants Following Kahler v. Kansas	2023	25	.pdf	application/pdf	11588	638	56	TREATING TROUBLED MINDS: LOSE THE LOTTERY AND RENDER REFORM Existing methods of mental health treatment in the criminal justice system are unacceptable, with less than one out of five inmates suffering from psychiatric illness receiving treatment during incarceration.155 With the complex system and unpredictable outcomes associated with raising insanity, many defendants refrain from raising the defense, and even if they attempt the defense, the likelihood of success is trivial.156 Furthermore, the Supreme Court has continuously upheld state insanity laws, even when evidence of potential bias exists.157 The most 149. According to a 2018 study from the University of Nevada, Reno, white jurors tend to have more positive attitudes towards mentally ill defendants and are often more accepting of insanity claims compared to non-white jurors.139 Furthermore, jurors who are not affiliated with a religious group typically have more positive attitudes towards mental illness, the existence of mental insanity, and insanity as a legal defense as opposed to religiously affiliated jurors.140 Political party affiliation also revealed bias, with Republicans having the most negatives attitudes toward mental illness compared to Democrats and Independents.141 The aforementioned data can be problematic for a defendant attempting an insanity defense if his attorney is unaware of these potential biases or unable to adequately question the potential jurors.	cache/inlawrev-27136.pdf	txt/inlawrev-27136.txt