Around 10:00am on June 20‚ 2001‚ Rusty Yates received a startling phone call from his wife‚ Andrea‚ whom he had left only an hour before. "You need to come home‚" she said. Puzzled‚ he asked‚ "What’s going on?" She just repeated her statement and then added‚ "It’s time. I did it." Not entirely sure what she meant but in light of her recent illness‚ he asked her to explain and she said‚ "It’s the children." Now a chill shot through him. "Which one?" he asked. "All of them." He dropped everything
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Inside Criminal Law To understand the justice system in America you must understand criminal law. Criminal law is different from all other types of law. If you are charged with a crime it is best that you understand criminal law. Criminal law is a branch of law dealing with crime: the branch of law that defines the nature of crimes and sets suitable punishments for them. (Encarta‚ 2009) This criminal law system is laws and rules for society to follow so that everyone is safer. As well as having
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defenses to criminal conduct. Self defense is when the defendant admits to committing the act but proves they did it because he or she life was in danger. Secondly‚ you have automatism and/or insanity. In this defense‚ the defendant does not get criminally punished because of mens rea‚ like sleep walking. Also‚ insanity defense is when you do not know the difference between right or wrong because of mental disease or defect. They do not understand the exigent of the crime. When someone is under the influence
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months with child‚ facing prison. Look at her eyes‚ pleading for help. Begging for the understanding. This woman could not have possibly known what she was doing when she struck her husband‚ detective Patrick Maloney. In that moment of temporary insanity‚ she made a mistake caused by the many hormones coursing through her body. On the night of his unfortunate death‚ her late husband had given Mrs. Maloney some shocking news. He informed her that he was leaving her for another woman. Upon hearing
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should Whitman be held responsible for his actions? Why or why not? If Whitman had lived‚ would you have been in favor of capital punishment (i.e.‚ the death penalty)‚ life imprisonment‚ or no prosecution for his crimes (or how about a plea of insanity)? Explain and support your responses. It is unfortunate for Whitman that the mass on his amygdale wasn’t discovered prior to the murders. If this was the cause of his aggression‚ surgery might have been able to relieve the issue. I do believe
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In Euripides’ Medea‚ the protagonist abandoned the gender roles of ancient Greek society. Medea defied perceptions of gender by exhibiting both "male" and "female" tendencies. She was able to detach herself from her "womanly" emotions at times and perform acts that society did not see women capable of doing. However‚ Medea did not fully abandon her role as a woman and did express many female emotions throughout the play. <br> <br>In ancient Greek society‚ murder was not commonly associated with women
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said Rita Mae Brown. The definition for ‘insanity’ is the state of being seriously mentally ill. There are most likely multiple different definitions‚ but this was the most broad. Insanity can‚ in a way‚ have benefits. For example‚ a person accused of a crime can admit that they committed the crime‚ but may claim that they are not accountable for the crime due to the fact they have a mental illness by pleading "not guilty by reason of insanity." The insanity defense mirrors a negotiation on the part
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than one theme throughout the story. The tragedy‚ Medea‚ by Euripides is very good example of this. Throughout this story‚ the themes of betrayal and love‚ revenge‚ and women’s rights arise. Euripides brings these points up to help the reader to realize that women are powerful also. Betrayal is a very important theme throughout this story. Her husband Jason betrays Medea‚ when he abandons her and her children for another woman. Medea then realizes that Jason used her for her power and
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Dasia M. Thomas March 12‚ 2011 2nd The Greek tragedies‚ “Medea” and “Antigone” are best understood when studied in terms of the central conflict and the resolution. Both “Antigone’ and “Medea” were written in the beginning of the sixth century B.C. in Greece‚ and are similar tragic Greek plays. “Antigone” takes place in the city of Thebes‚ and the protagonist is Antigone‚ daughter of Oedipus. Antigone faces an external conflict; she struggles with the new King‚ her uncle Creon‚ as she strives
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Louis Nowra’s screenplay ‘Cosi’ explores the attitudes to and perception of the mentally ill in 1971. During this period Australia is at war and undergoing social reform. The perception of mental patients in the 70s can be seen as unethical and inhumane‚ with society grouping them with animals and locking them away in asylums with barbaric conditions. The 70s saw mental illness being neglected and kept in the dark and with movies that depict ‘mad’ people as animals; a negative connotation is placed
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