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To: Puddleglum
This is all too complex to comprehend on the basis of news reports, but it showcases important issues in contemporary psychiatry and jurisprudence.

Perhaps I missed the answer to my question, which is: what was her motive for killing her children? Motive is an important element of intent, which must be proven in order to find a defendant guilty of murder.....

146 posted on 03/01/2002 5:27:03 AM PST by tracer
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To: tracer
"Motive is an important element of intent . . ."

To "punish" her husband, perhaps? Wasn't he the second phone call?

152 posted on 03/01/2002 5:31:58 AM PST by Slip18
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