TY - JOUR T1 - Revisiting the Deific-Decree Doctrine in Washington State JF - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online JO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law SP - 95 LP - 104 VL - 36 IS - 1 AU - Gregory B. Leong Y1 - 2008/03/01 UR - http://jaapl.org/content/36/1/95.abstract N2 - The deific-decree exception to Washington's M'Naughten insanity standard first appeared in case law a quarter century ago in State v. Crenshaw. A few subsequent cases have attempted to refine the contours of the deific decree; however, the deific-decree doctrine has had only limited utility as a basis for the insanity defense. After about a decade of no activity in this area, the Washington courts have recently revisited the deific-decree doctrine in a case involving two defendants. ER -