[Vision2020] Noble Found Not Guilty Due to Temporary Insanity

[Andreas Schou]

Art --

So, what your'e saying is that someone with a heretofore undetected
mental condition severe enough that he can't understand what's going
on in an interaction with the police, can, regardless, be expected to
understand what's going on with that condition and seek help. Dan
Noble's problem was sufficiently severe that he got in two sequential
car accidents he wasn't aware of, got arrested, and then tried to
wander away in the middle of a court hearing. There's no indication he
understood a single thing about the world around him.

Sure, his family should have noticed he was having a psychotic break.
But -- you know what? Two things: first, the mentally ill aren't
substantially more likely to commit acts of violence than other
people. Second, it's surprisingly easy to rationalize the behavior of
people you love who are going out of their mind. Without going into
detail: I've failed to do so. I rationalized a loved one's
increasingly bizarre behavior as being within the realm of normalcy,
and I supposedly have some kind of knowledge on the subject.

It's not easy. And if you think *this* is an abuse, I can't imagine
what you'd think would be non-abusive.

-- ACS

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Art Deco <deco at moscow.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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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