She could have been charged with capital murder, but the prosecution decided against it. She was given a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility for parole.View Listing » New York, New Y
Today we must decide whether psychiatric evidence is admissible to be evaluated by the jury when an accused offers it to negate the element of specific intent required for a conviction of murder of the first degree thereby reducing the crime to murder of the second degree.[1] We *213 are p...
She could have been charged with capital murder, but the prosecution decided against it. She was given a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility for parole.View Listing » New York, New York, US View stigmatized properties Ottawa, Ontario, CA View stigmatized properties...
In convicting Brian of murder in the third degree, Anderson was accepting that Brian's ability to form intent consistent with murder in the first degree was compromised by his mental condition. In a sense, he wound up in the same place Brian would have started from under Iranian law: ...