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Judge Finds Lashuan Harris 'Insane'
http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_017152406.html ^

Posted on 01/17/2007 12:44:20 PM PST by Lunatic Fringe

(AP) SAN FRANCISCO A young mother who claimed she tossed her three young sons to their deaths in San Francisco Bay to send them to heaven was declared criminally insane Wednesday by a judge.

The ruling came a day after jurors found Lashuan Harris, 24, guilty of second-degree murder in the drownings of her three boys on Oct. 19, 2005.

Defense lawyers argued that Harris was schizophrenic and borderline mentally retarded and that she was convinced she was acting on orders from God when she plunged 6-year-old Trayshawn Harris, 2-year-old Taronta Greely Jr. and 16-month-old Joshua Greely into the bay.


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Another mother gets away with murdering her children.
1 posted on 01/17/2007 12:44:22 PM PST by Lunatic Fringe
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To: Lunatic Fringe

First clue to her insanity was the names she gave those poor little kids.


2 posted on 01/17/2007 12:45:33 PM PST by 3AngelaD (ic.)
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To: Lunatic Fringe
Another mother gets away with murdering her children.

No doubt her defenders and apologists will be here shortly.

3 posted on 01/17/2007 12:46:59 PM PST by Constitution Day ("Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." — Aldous Huxley)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

What kind of mother names her kid "Joshua?"


4 posted on 01/17/2007 12:49:47 PM PST by r9etb
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To: Constitution Day

of course there is the obligatory swipe at those who believe in a god. "she was acting on orders from God".............


5 posted on 01/17/2007 12:50:26 PM PST by superfries
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To: Lunatic Fringe

She probably was criminally insane. I think, even in CA, that means they get put away for an indefinite period (that is, committed forever). A few years ago in CA, that meant they were back out on the street after 30 days of "evaluation," but I think a few horrible cases where these nuts immediately killed other people forced even CA to change that law and commit them.


6 posted on 01/17/2007 12:53:08 PM PST by livius
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To: Lunatic Fringe

She isn't getting away with it - she was already found guilty of three counts of second degree murder. She's never getting out - she's just headed to a prison mental hospital for a while. And she was never charged with death-penalty-eligible crimes, anyway.


7 posted on 01/17/2007 12:55:30 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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...Harris was schizophrenic and borderline mentally retarded...

There was a time when women like her were sterilized by the state.

8 posted on 01/17/2007 1:08:27 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: superfries

How is that a swipe at believers? Methinks you have your overly sensitive skin on.

The comment was part of her defense (which doesn't make it true, but it certainly doesn't make it a swipe).


9 posted on 01/17/2007 1:22:11 PM PST by dmz
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If my mother named me Lashuan, I'd be insane too.

I'd have to be, to name defenseless little children Trayshawn and Taronta.


10 posted on 01/17/2007 1:23:09 PM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: dmz

God receive her three poor children....


11 posted on 01/17/2007 1:26:29 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Lunatic Fringe

Another mother gets away with murdering her children.
NOT TRUE


12 posted on 01/17/2007 1:28:18 PM PST by SF Republican
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To: The Great RJ
There was a time when women like her were sterilized by the state.

You don't condone that do you?

13 posted on 01/17/2007 1:30:58 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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What kind of mother names her kid "Joshua?"

LOL.

14 posted on 01/17/2007 1:38:18 PM PST by AnnaZ (I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
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To: Graybeard58

Why would it be unfair to sterilize a person after her conviction for multiple murders?


15 posted on 01/17/2007 1:44:20 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: r9etb

OMG...that was funny.


16 posted on 01/17/2007 1:45:33 PM PST by krb (If you're not outraged, people probably like having you around.)
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To: Mr. Lucky

Well, it would be unusual, but probably not cruel. So it would be ok in my book.


17 posted on 01/17/2007 1:46:26 PM PST by krb (If you're not outraged, people probably like having you around.)
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To: The Great RJ

Aren't MOST people in SF insane and/or retarded?


18 posted on 01/17/2007 2:00:56 PM PST by smokinleroy
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To: Mr. Lucky
Why would it be unfair to sterilize a person after her conviction for multiple murders?

With proper sentencing, sterilization would be superfluous.

19 posted on 01/17/2007 2:05:12 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Graybeard58

Now that you've explained it, your logic is unassailable.


20 posted on 01/17/2007 2:26:28 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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