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A CRAZY VERDICT

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

UPDATED  A CRAZY VERDICT: back from vacation and fully rested, ace Herald scribe Susannah Nesmith reports on the RARE  NGI (Not guilty insanity) verdict on a double murder case before Judge Adrien last week. (The title of the post links to the article.) Veteran Prosecutor David Waksman for the state and G.P. Della Fera for the defense.  We take Ms. Nesmith to task for reporting that the verdict means that the defendant could be released from a mental hospital in a few years. Possible but extremely unlikely. And that type of reporting(and the "sour grape" like statements from Waksman that the defendant will be out in a few years and taking street drugs)  leads to the Hollywood like hysteria that makes verdicts like this a near impossibility.  (For a good defense of Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on December 15, 2008 (boomark / email).