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What makes the plea so difficult is that it is inherently confusing. "It's an 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...
Kerrigan's nationwide exposure on the CBS Evening News and in--among others--The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek helped win her a position as a guest lecturer at Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Va...
Subcommittee member Thomas J. Bliley Jr. (R--Va.) said he was concerned with how the Department of Health and human services would set the Medical School's rate...
Lyndon LaRouche. The wild-eyed libertarian, who has also run for the White House before, sent in his form from the federal prison in Alexandria, Va., where he is serving a 15-year sentence for mail fraud...
...minted products were routinely labeled STRICTLY AMERICAN. Collecting Americana -- "antiqueering," as it was known -- become a national hobby. Henry Ford filled warehouses with what he called "American stuff": Duncan Phyfe tables, endless volumes of McGuffey Readers and Thomas Edison memorabilia. John D. Rockefeller Jr. set about restoring colonial Williamsburg, Va., in the painstaking detail that only a billionaire could afford. In the '30s the New Deal was sponsoring research into folk art and folk songs. For the first time the government, not the private sector, became the main custodian of history...