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Pleading that his client is either guilty but mentally ill or not guilty by reason of insanity, lead defense attorney David Bruck is expected to argue that Smith -- who wrote a detailed confession -- was psychologically destabilized by a lifetime of betrayals: a father who killed himself, a stepfather who molested...
Rudenstine who watched as the University suffered through a tragic murder-suicide, his own three-month leave of absence for severe fatigue and the court confession of two young albums who embezzled $125,000 from an Eliot House charity, has clearly endured one of the most difficult years in recent...
The validity of his confession, however, is heatedly disputed -- no small matter since police have no witnesses, no weapon, not even a fingerprint, to further link Davis to the Biebel case. The police insist that Davis offered his confession without prompting; Davis counters that it was coerced under threat of...
The case has also attracted attention from advocates for the mentally disabled, who believe that any unchaperoned confession by a retarded defendant is suspect. As a teen, Davis was diagnosed with "organic brain disfunction," which doctors date to a bicycle accident suffered at age 10; in their judgment, he falls...
Reports thatbombing suspect Timothy McVeighmade a jailhouse confession taking responsibility for theOklahoma bombingsimply are not credible, says the sheriff of the Perry, Okla. jail. A prisoner in that jail claims McVeigh confided in him. The sheriff notes the prisoner is a twelve-time convicted felon, and has a history of...