[3]: 622 The court wrote "the phrase 'incapable of distinguishing right from wrong' refers to a person's cognitive ability, due to a mental disease or defect, to distinguish right from wrong as measured by a societal standard of morality... [and] does not refer to a purely personal and subjective standard of morality.
"[3]: 623 The court also examined the relationship between the legal test of insanity and a deific decree, the belief that an act is not wrong because God ordered it.
[3]: 623 Robert Pasqual Serravo [4] was reading his Bible then went upstairs and stabbed his sleeping wife in the back.
[3]: 618 Other defense psychiatrists found that his delusions made him unable to tell right from wrong, in accordance with standards of society.
[3]: 615 Text of People v. Serravo is available from: CourtListener Google Scholar Justia Leagle vLex