Posted on 02/19/2010 12:50:55 AM PST by paudio
An Alabama college professor accused of killing three colleagues during a faculty meeting is likely insane, and she can't remember the shootings, her attorney said. Roy W. Miller, the court-appointed attorney for Amy Bishop, told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that his client has severe mental problems that appear to be paranoid schizophrenia. Miller discussed the case hours after hundreds of mourners attended the first funeral and memorial services for Bishop's slain co-workers.
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Typical and wrong. If she can remember how to regurgitate test answers at Harvard, she can remember shooting people.
Evil is spiritually insane, but it is not criminally insane - it is deliberate, knowing and enjoyed (if not exulted in) by the evil person.
“she was probably abused as a child”
If she is insane, she wouldn't have responded to student (and possibly faculty) criticism, and changed her teaching methods.
Unless all the positive student responses on "My Professor" were actually written by her. (What?)
Did will call this one?
I thought they’d claim multiple personalities....One doesn’t remember the other ones.
Insanity? I am surprised that she hasn’t been proclaimed to be mentally retarded. That alone would get her out of the death penalty.
One less 0bama voter.
Don’t worry — ACORN will still register her name and send a voter.
This was predictable.
Of course, he almost has to go this way because there is way to pretend she didn’t do it.
He either has to lay the insanity defense or start putting marshmallows on her fingers.
A liberal can’t commit a hate crime.
Sane on insane I don’t care. If you kill and murder then you need an expedited trip to the electric chair, gas chamber or firing squad
Of course she is insane. She is an ardent Obama supporter.
The last person she attempted to shoot -- twice, but the gun jammed -- was a white professor who was probably her only friend at the institution.
She was insane aright....she was a liberal.
Any one familiar with Alabama law? I know in most states it’s damn near impossible to prove an insanity defense, and rightfully so. My suspicions are that in Alabama it may be even more difficult than that. This witch needs to fry.
I can’t decide who is crazier, her or Joe Stacks? The crazy pilot was at least aware of his bizarre actions.
In Bama....I’d be guessing that this crazy-like-a-nut defense typically doesn’t do much in a jury situation. Most folks on a Bama jury...have crazy relatives who drive cars, operate power equipment, own weapons, and attend church on Sundays. So they aren’t going to readily buy into this deal. Don’t forget we vote insane folks into public office, buy lumber from them, and often hunt with them. So unlike folks in New York or California...we are likely going to view this distinction of bringing harm to folks and just disqualify insanity.
If the court sends her to see 7 doctors of its own choosing and every single one proclaims her so far out of her gourd as to be devoid of responsibility, she might fare OK with a bench trial.
Predicable.
I wonder if she remembers VISITING A FIRING RANGE THE DAY BEFORE.
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