Missile defense

Sane Enough to Die Imagine a state of paranoia so great that it starts to seem as if one’s own thoughts are not their own, or auditory and visual hallucinations that continuously speak of the inferiority of the masses, creating an intense sense of superiority in oneself. Such experiences are just a few of the possible symptoms of schizophrenia, a fairly well recognized psychological disorder present in today’s society. Psychological disorders are an incredibly real issue in the modern world…

Insanity Defense. What constitutes its use? How can personality psychology server to the client’s advantage? How is this field of psychology used to better determine a criminal’s behavior? How often is this form of defense used, and how successful is it in serving as a “get out of jail free card”? Before one can even begin to fathom any of these questions, one must first understand what this defense signifies. As one of our moral checks on the Criminal Justice System (CJS), the insanity…

The case of Andrea Yates is one of the most infamous cases in the last decade and the reason for that is because Andrea’s mental state leading up to the murders. Andrea Yates in 2001 drowned all five of her children in a bathtub in her Huston, Texas home. However, was she responsible for her actions? Andrea suffered from several mental illnesses including postpartum depression. She was constantly in and out of mental health institutions and was given medication to deal with her depression.…

relayed to the court. An article entitled, Rationality, Insanity, and the Insanity Defense: Reflections on the Limits of Reason written by Theodore Y.…

widely in the court system to alleviate a quilty verdict connected to a crime as person has committed. For the insanity defense to be effective in a court case, a person must be professionally proven to have mental issues that would prevent them from being held responsible for his or her actions. The insanity plea has its pros and its cons when it is being presented as a defense. For the plea to be effective for the justice system, the defendant, and the victim or society, it must be looked…

An analysis of the history and development of the insanity defense may initiate a greater understanding of its advantages, drawbacks, and social, economic, and political repercussions. The earliest evidence of the insanity defense appears as early as the third century, in Roman, Greek, and Hebrew doctrines (Shea, 2001). Early Roman law stated that those who commit crimes without evil intent should not be held criminally responsible for those crimes. Furthermore, the Roman law Lex Aquila…

In 2003, Andre Thomas viciously attacked and killed his ex-wife and her two children, and was sentenced to death row. His defense argued that he was not eligible for death row because of his mental state. The court ignored the argument and passed it off, saying that they were using his illness as an excuse to “get out of” maximum punishment. As demonstrated in this case, mental illness is not given the attention it deserves when determining a sentence. Cases such as these have aroused concern…

Individuals diagnosed (currently or formerly) with mental illness often face many difficulties in life such as, prejudice and stigmas. Mental illness is still seen as a sign of weakness despite of all the knowledge known about it (Byrne, 2000). Stigma is a term with Greek origins. Stigmas are a sign of disgrace that makes a person different from other people (Schaefer, 2004). The Greeks cut or burned the skin of a person with a stigma to show that they are a blemished, and should be avoided at…

painful as possible in order to gain cooperation fast from a subject. This is purposefully done to get the officer out of a dangerous situation fast. The non lethal claymore, is placed in an area a uncooperative subject is attempting to flee to. When detonated its causes hundreds of small rubber balls to be propelled by explosion at the fleeing subject (Nye, 2015). It is meant to cause maximum pain and enough injury to cause the subject to either give up or go unconscious from the pain (Nye,…

Kingwood Home Health Care, LLC, 437 S.W.3d 507, 511 (Tex. 2014). A defendant is entitled to summary judgment by conclusively negating at least one essential element of the plaintiff’s cause of action or establishing each element of an affirmative defense. Radcliffe v. Tidal Petroleum, Inc., No. 04-15-00644-CV, 2017 Tex. App. LEXIS 1049, at *25 (Tex. App.—San Antonio Feb. 8, 2017, no pet.). “A matter is conclusively established if reasonable people could not differ as to the conclusion to be…