[Jalapeno]

Huh? Ted Maher says he stabbed himself?

Anna,

Ted has always maintained that there were no attackers and that his wounds were self inflicted, as his lawyer has said.

The challenge for his lawyers is to spare Ted from spending the rest of his life in jail for starting a fire that resulted in the deaths of two people.

The defense will argue that the emergency services were incompetent (which they were) and that possibly Safra was imbalanced (paranoid as he was) and hindered the rescue. The prosecution will argue that Ted is a grown man who understands that a fire, once set, is capable of getting out of control and therefore knew he was putting the two victims in harms way, regardless of the subsequent actions or inactions of others.

There are documents on the case in these two threads.

Ted Maher now says "It was an accident"

Ruling offers glimpse into mind of nurse who set fatal fire (Ted Maher)

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[American Preservative]

FYI ping.

[pubmom]

Thanks for the informative ping. It appears as though the defense is counting on mercy from the court. Very risky, IMO.

[ethical]

What a sick pathetic man. To say that he was not responsible for their deaths because the fire department did not put out the fire he deliberately started. He started the fire (deliberate arson) and people died, he suffers the consequences of his actions. Two people dead and he needs to stay in prison for a long time.