To pass judgement on the situation, we must accept the narrator’s account of the murder of Patrick Maloney to be true.
As the lawyer for the defense, here is a brief synopsis of the details of the case:
Patrick Maloney was killed in his apartment by his wife, Mary, on Thursday evening. Mary, in reaction to her husband’s revelation that he was going to leave her, clubbed him over the head with a frozen leg of lamb. The lamb shattered the back of his head, killing him instantaneously. After the murder, Mary recovered quickly, staging a cover-up act that was concluded by feeding the police investigators the weapon used to commit the crime.
The evidence provided in Dahl’s account of the events proves, without a doubt, that Mary Maloney was caught up in a crime of passion, and thus may not be held criminally responsible for her actions. …show more content…
According to the case briefing, she was recorded to have reacted in the following fashion: “Her first instinct was not to believe any of it. She thought that perhaps she’d imagined the whole thing.” In this line of thinking, she left Patrick to go prepare dinner as originally planned. Dahl then tells us of the shocked state she is in: “When she walked across the room, she couldn’t feel her feet touching the floor. She couldn’t feel anything except a slight sickness. She did everything without thinking.” She did everything without thinking. It cannot, therefore, be suggested that Mrs. Maloney is criminally responsible for her actions, as she has clearly been overcome by an irrational part of her consciousness, one that denies her the ability to think. To further the point, Mary is described after killing Patrick as being woken from a shock. The testimonial states, “She came out slowly, feeling cold and surprised, …” Some foreign agent took control of her mind, causing her to act in a way she would not ordinarily consider
As the lawyer for the defense, here is a brief synopsis of the details of the case:
Patrick Maloney was killed in his apartment by his wife, Mary, on Thursday evening. Mary, in reaction to her husband’s revelation that he was going to leave her, clubbed him over the head with a frozen leg of lamb. The lamb shattered the back of his head, killing him instantaneously. After the murder, Mary recovered quickly, staging a cover-up act that was concluded by feeding the police investigators the weapon used to commit the crime.
The evidence provided in Dahl’s account of the events proves, without a doubt, that Mary Maloney was caught up in a crime of passion, and thus may not be held criminally responsible for her actions. …show more content…
According to the case briefing, she was recorded to have reacted in the following fashion: “Her first instinct was not to believe any of it. She thought that perhaps she’d imagined the whole thing.” In this line of thinking, she left Patrick to go prepare dinner as originally planned. Dahl then tells us of the shocked state she is in: “When she walked across the room, she couldn’t feel her feet touching the floor. She couldn’t feel anything except a slight sickness. She did everything without thinking.” She did everything without thinking. It cannot, therefore, be suggested that Mrs. Maloney is criminally responsible for her actions, as she has clearly been overcome by an irrational part of her consciousness, one that denies her the ability to think. To further the point, Mary is described after killing Patrick as being woken from a shock. The testimonial states, “She came out slowly, feeling cold and surprised, …” Some foreign agent took control of her mind, causing her to act in a way she would not ordinarily consider