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Then, in 1954, in the case of a Washington, D.C., housebreaker, Monte Durham, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals declared that a person is not criminally responsible if his "unlawful act was the product of mental disease or mental defect." This was a great deal broader than M'Naghten, said Kaufman, but it created new problems. Deciding whether an act is the "product" of a disease is difficult, perhaps impossible. Moreover, such terms as "mental disease and mental defect" give expert psychiatric witnesses a blank check. "It seems clear that a test which permits all to stand...
Uniformity in Sight. What Kaufman and his fellow judges liked about the new rule was that it was not only a giant step forward from M'Naghten but also a viable solution to the problems in Durham. Instead of "knowing" the difference between right and wrong, the defendant is now subject to the subtler requirement of "appreciating" it. Similarly, proving the act a "product" of the disease now becomes the more reasonable task of showing that the disease resulted in a loss of "substantial capacity" to obey the law. "We do not delude ourselves in the belief that...
Reporter Christopher Porterfield was the member of the team to whom Rubinstein got most accustomed. In just over three weeks, Porterfield went along to New York, Boston, Toronto, Washington, Durham (N.C.), Columbia (S.C.) and Cincinnati, questioning and listening in airplanes, taxis, concert halls and at cocktail parties. In Columbia, where Rubinstein played a sonata that he had played two nights earlier in Durham, he seemed to be testing Porterfield. Striding backstage immediately after finishing the sonata, Rubinstein asked: "Did you notice any difference between this time and the night before last?" "Yes," said Porterfield, "this time was better." Rubinstein turned...
...Rick Sterne has demonstrated all season, Harvard's most certain victory comes in the number three slot. The Crimson sophomore, undefeated and hardly challenged this year, faces Yale's Roy Durham...