[Vision2020] Noble Found Not Guilty Due to Temporary Insanity

[Art Deco]

I agree with Tom.

At what point when a person sees that not all is right does it become ethical to seek help.  That's what personal responsibility is about.  I hope that the insanity defense laws will be changed to reflect that responsibility.

Treatment is fine and necessary but there should also be some penalty for the lack of responsibility in not seeking treatment/mitigation before the mental illness progresses so far that control is lost.

W.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Hansen 
  To: Moscow Vision 2020 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 4:12 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Noble Found Not Guilty Due to Temporary Insanity


  Courtesy of the Daily News.

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  Noble found not guilty due to temporary insanity
  May 5, 2010, 3:57 pm

  Dan Noble was found not guilty of two counts of vehicular assault and two
  counts of hit and run in Whitman County Superior Court on Wednesday.

  Judge David Frazier ruled that Noble was temporarily insane during the
  Dec. 9 incident, in which he ran over two Washington State University
  students with his car on the WSU campus in Pullman.

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  Perhaps now Mr. Noble can get the help necessary to prevent this from ever
  happening again.

  Although Mr. Noble's temporary loss of self-control was the major
  contributing factor in this incidents, I still feel that preventive
  measures should have been taken to avoid this from happening.

  Seeya round town, Moscow.

  Tom Hansen
  Moscow, Idaho

  "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
  and the Realist adjusts his sails."

  - Unknown


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