Arizona shooter pleads not guilty

[Biscuit]

My office window is down the street from the TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital where she was transported to today. There were over 12 news vans parked in up and down the street last week, still about 6 camped out today and helicopters circling this morning. They had to set up port-a-potties for the news media. I can't imagine what a circus the trial will be.


Daredelvis

Apparently his attorney is only concerned about where he will be kept in Tucson.

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I wish they would stop using that photo!

Don't forget to advertise that you are donating a portion of your proceeds to charity. You might even get some free publicity during the slow parts of he trial!

Of course I will let people know. I am always doing something for charity, in the last 3 months we collected over 50 pairs of shoes for Soles for Souls.

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

IS the insanity defence more common in the US than the UK? A M'Nachton verdict (not guilty by reason of insanity) is pretty rare here. The more usual verdict is a Section 2 Manslaughter (diminished responsibility).

I would say the same is true here. There are probably many many more cases where it's not murder because in the passion of the moment the killer wasn't able to tell right from wrong or some such.

Obviously that doesn't apply to Loughner since there's plenty of evidence that this was deliberate and pre-meditated.

But then again, maybe there are more nutjobs in the US (especially with guns) than in UK so it would happen here more often.

But I don't think there is any more of a predisposition for US criminal courts to reach the verdict non guilty by reason of insanity.

 

[A Laughing Baby]

Apparently, in the days before the shooting, Loughner was researching punishments for political assassins in the past, as well as solitary confinement/lethal injection. This may hurt his insanity plea.

 

[dtugg]

But then again, maybe there are more nutjobs in the US (especially with guns) than in UK so it would happen here more often.

Why would you think that might be the case? I am no doctor but I would think that nutjobbery has nothing to do with the country one is from. Of course, you are right that the nutjobs in the US are more likely to have guns.

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[Thunder]

Thunder,

What is the deal with sexualizing people who you disagree with? "Tea Baggers"? You cannot argue with them logically so you have to attack them personally.

Um.....we did not invent this term. They did.

 

[Suddenly]

Why would you think that might be the case? I am no doctor but I would think that nutjobbery has nothing to do with the country one is from. Of course, you are right that the nutjobs in the US are more likely to have guns.

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My suggestion would be that maybe the UK has a better public mental health system seeing the one in the US is a badly underfunded joke. We wind up with more unstable people running around in public.

I admit I know next to nothing about the UK system, but I have a tough time imagining it being worse than the US system given socialized medicine and such.

 

[Professor Yaffle]

My suggestion would be that maybe the UK has a better public mental health system seeing the one in the US is a badly underfunded joke. We wind up with more unstable people running around in public.

I admit I know next to nothing about the UK system, but I have a tough time imagining it being worse than the US system given socialized medicine and such.

Well its beginning to be a bit better than it used to be (which was appalling). But then maybe appalling is relative.