Word: defectiveness
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PENIS PUZZLE Doctors can't explain why, but since 1970 the rate of boys born with their urinary opening in the wrong place has doubled. This peculiar defect appears in nearly 1 out of 100 male births...
...mentally ill? Or not? The inquisitive visitors were two prosecution psychiatrists, and the answers they got may not help the "mental defect" defense that Kaczynski's lawyers are planning for his trial, which starts Nov. 12. "I can't imagine anybody saying he's insane," says Becky Garland, 41, who befriended Kaczynski while working at Garland's Town & Country store in Lincoln. "You might say that anyone who makes mail bombs is insane. But insane by law? I don't think he was that...
...guilt phase or during the penalty phase that would follow a conviction, in an attempt to avoid a death sentence. But proving such a defense is difficult. Instead of arguing that he was insane, Kaczynski's lawyers seem to be planning a defense that he suffered from a mental defect that impaired his ability to form an intent to commit the crimes. Nevertheless, as far as his old neighbors seem to think, Ted Kaczynski, the former math professor, was gentle, soft-spoken and painfully shy. Last Friday Kaczynski's lawyers said he was refusing to submit to court-ordered psychiatric...
...Giumarra is the 'South Africa' of the table grape industry," Grossman said. "They apply cancer-causing and birth defect-causing pesticides to their vineyards that grape workers come in contact with...
...given Paul's sudden spectacular loss of control, the question arises whether some defect in the steering or braking system may have been at fault. The initial postaccident inspection by police experts showed the car to have been in good mechanical condition. But the final verdict on that question may have to wait until investigators have completely dismantled and inspected the car part by part. In the past few days, experts reportedly sent Judge Stephan a series of "observations" about the car's braking system...