Word: defectives
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...having a body that didn't look like a Barbie doll were a congenital defect. Now, a serious operation is as routine as a visit to the hairdresser...
According to Webster's Dictionary, "sound" means "free from flaw or defect...
...attempt to explain rationally the irrational," says William Moffitt, an Alexandria, Va., defense attorney. The legal term insanity bears little resemblance to common parlance or even medical usage. Generally, the legal test is that at the time a crime was committed, the defendant was suffering from a mental defect that made him or her incapable of telling right from wrong. Some states also consider whether a defendant's mental illness impaired the ability to control one's actions. The Dahmer case is expected to hinge on this so-called irresistible-impulse defense...
...years have advanced some bizarre arguments to assert insanity. Last year, for instance, a Florida forensic psychiatrist who was charged with bribery unsuccessfully argued that he was driven insane by his years of work with criminals. "Being a forensic psychiatrist for a long time is not a mental defect," declares Dr. Park Elliott Dietz of Newport Beach, Calif. Usually, defendants must have a defined mental illness. Moreover, it has to be directly linked to the crime. "Someone may have schizophrenia or manic-depressive illness, but that doesn't mean they didn't know what they were doing or couldn...
...sure, Byrd's motive is to help his state. And there is something less than perfect about a political system that decides where to locate the FBI's division of fingerprinting based on the vagaries of the congressional seniority system. (Whether term limits would cure this defect is another question. Although Byrd has been in the Senate for 33 years, he has only been Appropriations chairman for three). But, perhaps by coincidence, West Virginia is -- from an anti-Washington perspective -- probably the ideal place for the Federal Government to seep away to. Economically and culturally, if not geographically...