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Update on Children-in-Bay Murders: Insanity Defense
Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2006-12-21 18:05
Remember this one? "Mom" is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. Not at all unexpected, but thought you would weant to see it. Story here.
Notice the article calls her "mentally ill". Notice all her victims were boys. Excerpt:
"SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- A woman who claimed God ordered her to make a human sacrifice chose to kill her three children instead of herself, making her guilty of murder, a prosecutor said Wednesday during closing arguments at the woman's trial.
Prosecutor Linda Allen asked jurors to use their heads, not hearts, to determine Lashuan Harris' fate.
The mentally ill Oakland woman threw her children into San Francisco Bay last year but has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder by reason of insanity.
Defense attorney Teresa Caffese said Harris believed completely that she was sending her children -- 6-year-old Trayshun Harris, 2-year-old Taronta Greeley, Jr., and 16-month-old Joshoa Greeley -- to heaven when she threw them over a railing and into the bay's cold waters."
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By This Logic the 911 Terrorists Should Be Forgiven
"Defense attorney Teresa Caffese said Harris believed completely that she was sending her children -- 6-year-old Trayshun Harris, 2-year-old Taronta Greeley, Jr., and 16-month-old Joshoa Greeley -- to heaven when she threw them over a railing and into the bay's cold waters."
The 911 terrorists believed completely...
Is that the rule of what passes for LAW now?
If you can argue that an individual's BELIEFS excuse them from the harmful (murderous?) consequences of her/his actions and choices...
Then all terrorists are, logically, innocent.
This putrid legal dissembling is a direct consequence of feminism, the DV Industry, and the complicity of the so-called "legal profession."
Vampires love each others' company.
Everyone else is merely PREY.
Finding excuses for women who commit family violence
Time and again I see these defenses used for women who murder their children. The poor woman was coerced by demons -- forces outside her control -- to murder her children. This rationalization was used successfully to protect Andrea Yates and other child-killing women. It's also used to protect women who murder their partners. And it seems to be a female-only defense.
Perhaps That's Because...
"And it seems to be a female-only defense."
Men are fools?
No, men are just accountable for their actions....
....irrespective of circumstances. Only aggravating factors are counted when sentencing men these days - mitigating circumstances be dammed.
Women are NEVER responsible for their actions so it must always be the fault of some one or something (imaginary will do) else. So since the aggravating factor can never be the woman herself, we must add up all the mitigating circumstances to attribute to her.