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"A powerful and passionate indictment of the use of psychiatric testimony in criminal cases." --The Cleveland Plain Dealer A year after Richard Herrin confessed to killing his girlfriend, Bonnie Garland, he was found not guilty of murder. His crime, he pleaded, was committed "under extreme emotional disturbance," excusing him from maximum responsibility. He was convicted on the reduced charge of manslaughter. In this incisive examination of the murder, the trial, and its aftermath, a distinguished psychiatrist addresses the issue of the insanity defense. He shows how psychiatric testimony can distort court proceedings, and brilliantly analyzes the conflict between the individual rights of the accused and society's right to justice.… (altro)
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In this world of night, where a secret equilibrium seems to reign, the victim is always innocence
-- Nellie Sachs
Dedica
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Dedictated to David Heyward and Emily Heyward In whom my love, my hopes, and my future are invested
Incipit
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Following Interstate Highway 87, one leaves the outskirts of New York City via the Tappan Zee Bridge, which spans the awesome Hudson River in seeming defiance at its most imposing width. (Prologue)
The truth about Bonnie and Richard will never be knowable.
Citazioni
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Our mechanisms of indentification and empathy are central to our concepts of what is good and what is right. From the day of the killing, Richard attracted a host of concerned and compassionate defenders. When one person kills another, there is immediate revulsion at the nature of the crime. But in a time so short as to seem indecent to the members of the personal family, the dead person ceases to exist as an identifiable figure. To those individuals in the community of good will and empathy, warmth and compassion, only one of the key actors in the drama remains with who to commiserate – and that is always the criminal. The dead person ceases to be a part of everyday reality, ceases to exist. She is only a figure in a historic event. We inevitably turn away from the past, toward the ongoing reality, And the ongoing reality is the criminal; trapped, anxious, now helpless, isolated, often badgered and bewildered. He usurps the compassion that is justly his victim's due. He will steal his victim's moral constituency along with her life. (Prologue)
Ultime parole
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In our compassion for the criminal, we must remain vigilant in the defense of the social good, for the sake of those innocents living and yet unborn.
"A powerful and passionate indictment of the use of psychiatric testimony in criminal cases." --The Cleveland Plain Dealer A year after Richard Herrin confessed to killing his girlfriend, Bonnie Garland, he was found not guilty of murder. His crime, he pleaded, was committed "under extreme emotional disturbance," excusing him from maximum responsibility. He was convicted on the reduced charge of manslaughter. In this incisive examination of the murder, the trial, and its aftermath, a distinguished psychiatrist addresses the issue of the insanity defense. He shows how psychiatric testimony can distort court proceedings, and brilliantly analyzes the conflict between the individual rights of the accused and society's right to justice.
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