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Joe the Revelator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 11:43 AM Original message |
Know what I'd do if I wanted to commit a notorious crime and get off with an insanity defense? |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. I doubt it. It's actually not that easy. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 11:48 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. What people are already falling for it and they could be possible jurists. |
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musette_sf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 11:49 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. oh, I don't know, |
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Cid_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 11:50 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. But.. but.. but.. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:02 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. I worked with people with severe and persistent mental illness |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:15 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Bless you Cali |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:29 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. It really burned me out. bless your wife. |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:48 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Most don't see the dark side |
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cbayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
2. A good psychiatrist would see through that BS in a new york second, so your plan would be foiled. |
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Cid_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 11:51 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Saw it on CSI : NYLVSVU.... |
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Bjorn Against (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. True a good psychiatrist probably would see through it... |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
3. Zactly. Created alibi for nutjob defense. |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
8. insanity or not, there will be no getting off easy for him |
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BanzaiBonnie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:01 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. He's not free now, nor has he been free |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:03 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. ok |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
9. Remember, there's another person out there who may have been involved with Laughner. |
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DCKit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:11 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. Not only that, but his associations (and associates) are going to be anal-probed. nt |
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northernlights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
10. his history is broader and deeper than youtube and myspace |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
11. only our pet mass murderers are mentally ill? |
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Bjorn Against (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:08 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Our "pet mass murderers"? Did you honestly just say that? |
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immoderate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 01:23 PM Response to Reply #17 |
31. Whatever preplanning he might have done just indicates a different illness. |
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Bjorn Against (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 04:25 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. I never said that I thought he was sane, but it is also premature to say he was insane |
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KG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:19 PM Response to Reply #11 |
22. you're my pet asshole. |
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janet118 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
15. Oh this guy is a real nut alright . . . |
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Recovered Repug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
18. If the crime was to further a "cause" |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
21. in many states there really isn't an insanity defense |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
23. The prosecution would likely call co-workers, friends, neighbors, etc. |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
25. great points |
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haele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
26. Opinion only; this person is a marginal case, at worse - My uncle had severe schizophrenia, |
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Joe the Revelator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 02:36 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. Interesting insight |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
28. Insane or not... |
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Joe the Revelator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 01:14 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Thats what they said about Hinkley |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-10-11 07:39 AM Response to Reply #30 |
34. Mass murder.. |
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Nevilledog (902 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-09-11 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
29. Arizona does not have an insanity defense. |
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