Word: mentalism
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...defense also argued that Barrett was legally insane at the time of the shooting because of a mental illness...
Last May a judge ruled against Pring-Wilson’s motion in which he cited mental and physical trauma as a reason to suppress statements he made the night of the stabbing...
However, Saltzman points to key differences between Barrett and Pring-Wilson’s mental conditions...
...obvious difference is that in that case he [Barrett] was contending that the mental illness was the big factor,” Saltzman said. “The question was whether it had so impaired his judgment that he was legally insane...
...EXECUTED. MAMORU TAKUMA, 40; convicted last year of fatally stabbing eight schoolchildren in 2001; in Osaka. Takuma, who had a history of mental illness, went on a rampage at Ikeda Elementary School, attacking students and teachers in several classrooms. Unrepentant, he told the court he could have killed more children if he had targeted a nursery school instead...