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...matter of proving that he did it: No one disagrees that on January 3, 1999, Goldstein pushed 32-year-old Kendra Webdale to her death in front of a subway car. Regardless of the outcome, Andrew Goldstein will finally be sent someplace where he can't hurt anyone. But the fact that he begged to be hospitalized for two years before the crime, and was turned away by doctors who knew he was dangerously mentally ill, points to a system that's even crazier than...
...Goldstein's attorneys must try to prove that their client, with his 3,500-page mental history, is insane. So, with his consent, they have decided to take him off his medication. The reasoning goes that since the issue is Andrew Goldstein's state of mind when he killed Kendra Webdale, when he was off his medication, the deranged Goldstein should be the one the jury sees, not the pharmaceutically stabilized one whose demons are muted by drugs...
...chance at getting treatment? These do not seem like choices befitting a civilized society. (A law was passed last November in New York that calls for involuntary hospitalization for up to 72 hours when mental patients refuse to take their medicine. The irony is that the so-called Kendra's law would not have prevented Webdale's death, since Goldstein was requesting, not resisting, hospitalization...
Other freshman scoring points for Harvard were Helena Ronner, who finished sixth in the long jump (5.68m), and Kendra Barron, who finished fifth in the 400 meters...
...meter dash, giving the Crimson a one-two finish in the event with a time of 25.14 seconds. Schutte also won first place in the 400-meter dash with a time of 55.16 seconds, Crimson sweep of the top places along with sophomore Carrie McGraw (57.16) and freshmen Kendra Barron (58.05) and Amanda Shanklin...