HOUSTON‚ TX- Almost a week has passed since the case on Andrea Yates occurred. Andrea Yates drowned all five of her children in her bath tub last week on June 20th‚ 2001. The family grew up in a suburban area of Houston‚ Texas. This quintuple murder has shocked the whole nation of horrific comments and opinions on this case. Yates has been charged with first degree murder‚ and the trial has started. The kids ages ranged from 6 months to 7 years old‚ 4 brothers and 1 sister. Her Attorneys say the
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A woman convicted of killing her newborn and throwing her in the trash of a department store will not spend one day in prison. Jessica Price had entered an Alford plea in the 2013 death of her daughter‚ reports WLKY. An Alford plea means she acknowledges there’s enough evidence to convict her‚ but she does not admit guilt. She was charged with murder‚ but as part of a plea deal in March‚ the charge to be amended down to second-degree manslaughter. "No one can punish me more than myself‚" - a convicted
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Theodore Kaczynski‚ a man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and accused of sending bombs through the mail. Kaczynski “continued to tell the judge and his lawyers that he did not want to be labeled mentally ill” and thus his lawyer could not use a defense of mental illness (Reisner et al‚ 87). Subsequently‚ Kaczynski was sentenced to life without parole. This case exemplifies how the
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The insanity defense has been around since 1581‚ but the most people are familiar with the M’Naghten Rule‚ which was affirmed in the nineteenth century. Since then‚ many more rules and tests have been implemented to prove the sanity level of the defendant. There are lots of mixed opinions about the insanity defense and the most common argument is‚ “How do you know it is real?” Sure‚ in some cases it is obvious if they are lying or if they do suffer from a mental illness‚ but in other cases there
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A REPORT ON PHILIPPINE DEFENSE POLICIES INCLUDING DISASTER MANAGEMENT: ASSESSMENT OF POLICIES AND IMPLEMENTATION The group’s report covers important and current policies on Disaster Management. The group has prepared comprehensive oral and written presentations to provide a better understanding of the topic. The first part of the discussion will revolve around Philippine Defense and Disaster Management Policies while the second part includes the group’s assessment on the implementation
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extreme that Hinckley Jr. decided that the ultimate way to get her attention was to assassinate President Ronald Regan. In 1981‚ Hinckley Jr.’s defense team pled insanity defense and succeeded. Yoong (2012) states that he was acquitted of all thirteen charges of assault‚ murder and weapon counts and because of this ruling‚ the public perceived the insanity defense had a major loophole in the legal system which allowed a clearly guilty criminal to avoid responsibility and eventual
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Insanity Defense and the Question of Human Agency 1. Explain how a determinist view of free will versus a libertarianism view of free will changes the argument for the insanity defense‚ and capital punishment. 2. Do you think a libertarianism view of free will down plays the effect of the environment on an individual? 3. Are people born inherently good and choose to make bad decisions‚ or does the environment influence an individual’s decisions? 4. Recent studies on intelligence quotient suggest
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There are many debates on whether a mentally ill person who commits a crime should be criminally charged. Some people believe people with mental illnesses should be hospitalized and receive treatment‚ then be discharged once they are stable. Others believe having mentally ill people who have committed crimes being discharged after receiving treatment is a danger to their safety. I believe that decision depends on the person’s mental illness and their crime. But most of the time the mentally ill know
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Charles Laverne Singleton was a convicted murderer who was put on death row for killing store owner Mary Lou York in Hamburg. She died from loss of blood as a result of two stabs to her neck. After his conviction record states he had schizophrenia. He was legally sane when on his medication‚ but there were also times he refused to take his medication which results in paranoia. The argument is‚ should the state force metal ill prisoners to take antipsychotic drugs to make
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1. Hospital Order Under provisions of Section 37 of the MHA‚ a person convicted of an imprisonable offence could be eligible for a hospital order. This order would give the authority for him to be admitted to a specified hospital‚ where he would be detained under the conditions as set by the Act‚ for treatment. Under the 1983 MHA the Courts were bound by the four categories as described by the Act‚ and they required to be satisfied‚ based on expert evidence‚ that the individual was suffering
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