[Vision2020] Noble Found Not Guilty Due to Temporary Insanity

[Carl Westberg]

None of us are experts on the subject of mental illness.  Even the "experts" on mental illness are not experts.  Not all that long ago, it was a social stigma to have been diagnosed with mental illness.  "Snap out of it", "Keep a stiff upper lip", or just "Knock it off and act normal" were the common reactions.  Thankfully, it is more and more acknowledged as a true medical condition. I say thankfully because I have had all too personal an experience with it. As to falling into mental illness and not being aware of it while it's happening, I would hazard the guess that it is more than possible.  Is the temporary insanity plea abused in some legal cases?  Probably.  Was it in this case?  I have no idea.  When you're sent home after a colonoscopy, you are told to stay home and avoid making serious decisions that day.  It is stressed that you may be in a position of making poor judgments and not even be aware that you are doing so.  Again, it's only a layman's guess, but it could be very possible the same is true with certain mental illnesses.  We don't know what we don't know.

From: sunilramalingam at hotmail.com
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 06:48:13 -0700
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Noble Found Not Guilty Due to Temporary Insanity








No Tom,

How about you first provide us with the basis of your opinions since you were the first to offer yours? How much time do you spend working with mentally ill people?

Sunil



> Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 05:50:05 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Noble Found Not Guilty Due to Temporary Insanity
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> To: sunilramalingam at hotmail.com
> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
> 
> Sunil -
> 
> Would you care to enlighten us, then, concerning mental illness?
> 
> We await your exlanation . . . sans "utter rot".
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> > Utter rot.
> >
> > Your callous comparison of the mentally ill to alcoholics speaks more of
> > you than I would care to know.
> >
> > Sunil
> 
 		 	   		  
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