Woman accused of taping dog to refrigerator pleads 'impaired mental condition' - due to DV

Submitted by el cid on Wed, 2009-12-09 20:20

This story represents a unique application of the "battered woman syndrome". Basically, this woman is using her boyfriend's alleged DV to excuse her taping his dog to the fridge. I guess if you can use DV to justify murder you can use it to justify anything. Only problem: in Boulder, pets actually have value and rights. Not so sure about men. Excerpt:

'A former University of Colorado student who was arrested in April on suspicion of taping her boyfriend's dog to the refrigerator pleaded in court Wednesday that she suffered from an “impaired mental condition” that excuses her behavior.
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Toll's defense attorney George Kokus has argued that his client should be allowed to use the mental defense at trial because she was an “ongoing victim of domestic violence,” putting her in a mental state that either justifies, excuses or mitigates her actions.

For someone to plead an impaired mental condition means, in essence, that the person admits to doing the criminal act but was incapable of knowing what he or she was doing at the time of an alleged crime, according to deputy district attorney David Cheval.'

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Hey, what's the problem with this? "Impaired Mental Condition" is valid - I know from personal experience:

I had an impaired mental condition when I forgot where I put my keys yesterday.
I had an impaired mental condition when I failed an exam once.
I had an impaired mental condition when I got a headache last week.

Taking all these into consideration, and the fact that no-one can prove that I did not tape a dog to a refrigerator, that means I could have done it in each instance above and it would have been due to I.M.C. Disorder.

See how it works?

-ax

P.S. the exam I failed was logic 101.

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Submitted by axolotl on Thu, 2009-12-10 04:32

And all this time I thought I had some responsibility for my behavior.

When I took Logic 101, the dog ate my homework.

Well, it did.

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Submitted by el cid on Thu, 2009-12-10 15:05