Posted by sunny10 on February 17, 2005, at 12:24:23
In reply to Re: and one more thing » Angielala, posted by AuntieMel on February 17, 2005, at 10:35:39
the fact is, no one can or will ever be able to tell if the medication had anything AT ALL to do with it! It is impossible- all it does it to establish "reasonable doubt", which is all this lawyer has to do.
And, perhaps you are correct, the defense attorney only came up with this theory because they were extremely concerned about him being tried as a adult. As long as he can try to place the blame on "meds given to a child", he is also making the jury see him as a juvenile...
But the fact is, the amount of meds in the trial packet would not have been enough to "create a new personality that murders".
Have you read the DSM-IV categories? I'm surprised that ANYONE can be put away for a crime anymore... Almost everyone would be considered to have one disorder or another the way they present their clients in a court of law! Tell me that most lawyers themselves wouldn't be assigned a few diagnoses!
I'm beginning to believe that the only "sane" ones out there are those of us at Babble!
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