Posted on 10/21/2005 3:48:26 PM PDT by lunarbicep
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A college student who claimed he stabbed and slashed his piano professor more than 200 times because he thought she was a robot intent on killing him has been found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.
Jurors reached the verdict Thursday in the case of Jackson Ngai, a former student at the University of Texas, who could be committed to mental institutions indefinitely.
"If we can keep him locked up in a mental hospital for the rest of his life, that will be justice," prosecutor Corby Holcomb said.
Ngai's attorney has said Ngai believed music professor Danielle Martin was a robot or was controlled by a computer chip in her brain and was trying to kill him. On her body was a handwritten note that said, "Computer chip in brain."
Daneen Milam, a defense expert who said Ngai was insane, said the number of wounds on Martin's head, which left a deep hole in her skull, showed he was focused on something other than just killing Martin.
"He said he was getting a computer chip out," Milam testified. "He said that's what he was going to do. When he couldn't do it, he called the police to help him."
Ngai's attorney, Jim Erickson, did not immediately return a telephone message left at his office Friday.
Ngai, 24, had checked out of a mental health treatment center less than a day before Martin was killed.
it's hard to trust the same system that failed in the first place
Ngai, 24, had checked out of a mental health treatment center less than a day before Martin was killed.
He'll probably be let out shortly and then will kill again.
Some states now use "guilty but insane," and some call it "not guilty only by reason of insanity."
I think I got it!
How about...GUILTY by reason of mental insanity.
Corny I know, but makes far more sense than not guilty. He did do it. It just wasn't pre-meditated, cold blooded murder.
....and the difinition of "is" is?..
*smirk*
Doogle
Ah, the old "I Thought She Was A Robot" defense. Too bad for Scott Peterson that he didn't have this guy's lawyer.
I personally think that it should be "guilty, by reason of insanity".......more accurate if you asked me.
Note to self - use the ol' computer chip in the head for any future hearings.
Judge: "Why did you get drunk on single malt scotch, steal that Lexus, drive 105 mph past a police station, then refuse to stop when the cop tried to pull you over?"
Me: "Your honor, the cop was a robot."
Judge: "Bailiff, release this man!"
It's the perfect crime.
Bushfault!
Execution. Two reasons to kill him. One, because he's a violent killer. Two because he will never contribute anything to society and is an enormous burden.
Instead, he will need to be monitored 24/7 and kept away from others at all times. He will need to be restrained multiple times in his future as well as fed, medicated and guarded like a - well - er, psychokiller.
What do you expect. The prosecutor works for Ronnie Earle.
Sounds a lot like a variation on an old Star Trek TNG plot...
If we can? The prosecutor doesn't sound too sure of that.
If this crime had happened in the pre-computer chip years, I wonder what he would have said?
Aliens in his head?
Voices in my head?
My mother made me do it?
Someone needs to slip this guy a note saying that the chip wasn't in the teachers head, but it is in your chest.
If I had known this when I was in college...
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