Mental Illness Is Not an Appropriate Defense
Re “Family Will Fight Verdict in O.C. Racial Killing,” Oct. 14:
What is “legally insane”?
Is there such a condition as “legally insane”? Yes! This is when defense lawyers use mental illnesses to defend their clients.
If the defendant was suffering from a bio-psychological illness, he should have been under treatment. Was he?
Using mental illness as a defense attaches a stigma to people afflicted with such a disorder who in most cases are the victims and not the culprits.
Christine Dudzinski
Mission Viejo
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