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...retarded but whose defense attorney was too incompetent to bring it up during a trial or in appeals could be granted a new trial. Sounds easy enough, but it's going to be a tough case for defense attorneys to make, Belsky says. "If the first lawyer made a conscious, strategic choice to avoid the issue of the client's mental capacity, there will be no retrial. So of course every prosecutor will try to deflect charges of incompetence and uncover strategic plots in the defense's tactics." There will also be some new hearings - and possibly sentences...
...Ready for his lunch, Jiang sits up and casually unbuttons his sweaty, gray shirt, unself-conscious after years of on-set wardrobe changes. His assistant hands him a fresh shirt?navy blue printed with a herd of fierce, red, glaring bulls. "Ever had horse meat?" he asks as the waitress delivers a plate of blood red sashimi. He clenches a fist and then grips his tensed forearm, adopting the tone of an older, more experienced brother. "It makes you strong...
...fear center, the amygdala. Once activated, the amygdala sends the equivalent of an all-points bulletin that alerts other brain structures. The result is the classic fear response: sweaty palms, rapid heartbeat, increased blood pressure and a burst of adrenaline. All this happens before the mind is conscious of having smelled or touched anything. Before you know why you're afraid...
...HIGH ROAD Only after the fear response is activated does the conscious mind kick into gear. Some sensory information, rather than traveling directly to the amygdala, takes a more circuitous route, stopping first at the thalamus--the processing hub for sensory cues--and then the cortex--the outer layer of brain cells. The cortex analyzes the raw data streaming in through the senses and decides whether they require a fear response. If they do, the cortex signals the amygdala, and the body stays on alert...
...deeply comfortable with who she was and she demonstrated a kind of un-self-conscious kindness which is rare,” Held said...