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Right and wrong 'an illusion' (DC Sniper psychobabble defense)
Richmond Times Dispatch ^
| Dec 9, 2003
| PAUL BRADLEY AND KIRAN KRISHNAMURTHY
Posted on 12/09/2003 3:46:01 AM PST by putupon
Edited on 07/20/2004 11:50:15 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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CHESAPEAKE - When Linda Franklin was shot and killed last fall, Lee Boyd Malvo suffered from a "dissociative disorder," a "substantial impairment" that qualifies as a mental disease, a forensic psychologist told jurors during the teen's capital-murder trial yesterday.
Dewey G. Cornell, a University of Virginia psychology professor who has testified at dozens of criminal trials, said Malvo "is, in my experience, a very unusual, rare case."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: dcsniper; leeboydmalvo; malvo; malvotrial; mohammad; muhammad; psychobabble; sniper
He was just an excitable boy.
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posted on
12/09/2003 3:46:02 AM PST
by
putupon
To: putupon
What a great defense. Why didn't Muhammad blame it all on Malcom X and Farrakahn and Keanu Reeves?
2
posted on
12/09/2003 3:55:13 AM PST
by
angkor
To: putupon
The problem was that he played useful idiot to an adult with an evil agenda. Millions of people do this every day, in a political sense. Stupid, yes; insane, hardly.
To: putupon
Garbage
In
Garbage
Out
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posted on
12/09/2003 4:03:09 AM PST
by
backhoe
(--30--)
To: putupon
Thing of how liberals must be watching this trial. On the one hand, they have to want to let him go free. After all, he shares all of their values and hates White Christians as much as they do. On the other hand, they don't want to get shot.
How to decide?
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posted on
12/09/2003 4:03:28 AM PST
by
07055
To: putupon
Muhammad "taught him from very early on . . . that right and wrong are made up by the government," Cornell told jurors. Malvo "believed . . . that right and wrong is an illusion."If right and wrong are an illusion, then hanging Malvo for his crimes cannot possibly be wrong. It is morally neutral. Let's do it!
To: putupon
Nauseatingly predictable defense. I suppose that in the trial of John Muhammad, the defense will claim that it was Malvo who brainwashed him. But I don't think juries are in a mood these days to buy that claptrap.
To: 17th Miss Regt
My exact response! He wouldn't complain about a quick trial and execution, I'm sure.
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posted on
12/09/2003 6:00:32 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(France delenda est)
To: putupon
People that believe that right and wrong are an illusion are prime candidates for the death penalty.
9
posted on
12/09/2003 6:11:53 AM PST
by
William Terrell
(Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
To: 17th Miss Regt
Naw, they're only illusions when Malvo is doing wrong! That needle of lethal poison reaching for his vein is no illusion!
To: putupon
Did the members of Manson's group suffer from this illusion? What about Nazis and Japanese? Were they all insane?
To: ARepublicanForAllReasons
But I don't think juries are in a mood these days to buy that claptrap.Not in Virginia.
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posted on
12/09/2003 7:50:27 AM PST
by
angkor
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