[sanjuro]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100219/ap_on_re_us/us_ala_university_shooting

The Alabama university professor charged with fatally shooting three colleagues is remorseful but does not recall the shooting, her defense attorney said Friday.

Roy W. Miller said Amy Bishop, 44, is likely insane and does not remember pulling out a handgun and shooting six colleagues, three fatally, at a biology department faculty meeting one week ago at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

 

[Pesqueeb]

No!!!!!!!

 

[X3pilot]

This is why studying the insanity plea when I was taking criminal justice classes drove me nuts.

You never hear anything about their mental state until after the shooting ends. Where was the mental evaluation after she shot her brother with a shotgun?

If she can't remember anything, what does she have to be remorseful about?

 

[kidwoo]

This is why studying the insanity plea when I was taking criminal justice classes drove me nuts.

Heh

awesome

 

[sanjuro]

The insanity plea is really an exercise in legalese. Most murders seem crazy to me, so I believe the only standard is was it premediated or not, and I bet there is circumstantial proof like going to the range.