[Vision2020] Noble Found Not Guilty Due to Temporary Insanity

[Sunil Ramalingam]

What Utter Crap.

"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."

What personal responsibility do you expect to be exercised by a person who is losing his or her mind?

You think he should recognize the signs that he's losing his mind WHILE HE'S LOSING HIS MIND?

Maybe you come to this remarkable conclusion having spent a significant amount of time working with mentally ill people. Maybe you have the training and expertise to conclude that they are able to exercise reason while their minds are disintegrating.

Does this expertise extend to people with no prior diagnosis? With no prior experience of the symptoms and conditions? Who may not even realize that something is wrong?

Yeah, the mentally ill have it too friggin' easy. Let's penalize them for lacking the foresight to responsibly deal with terrifying symptoms, while they're lost in their own heads. 

I just knew you were going to post something like this when I saw Tom Hansen's post. Like clockwork, just like clockwork.

Sunil
From: deco at moscow.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 18:01:05 -0700
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Noble Found Not Guilty Due to Temporary Insanity










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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