Word: prosenjit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ruling stemmed from a 1969 murder case. While receiving outpatient psychiatric help at a campus hospital, Prosenjit Poddar, then 26 and a student at the University of California at Berkeley, said he intended to kill his former girl friend, Tatiana Tarasoff, 20. On a psychologist's orders, he was briefly detained by campus police, who released him two hours later when he appeared rational. A hospital psychiatric supervisor ordered no further action against him. Two months later, Poddar stabbed Tarasoff to death with a butcher knife...
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