| doctom54 |
07-27-2016 15:40 |
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Originally Posted by cbtengr
(Post 613967)
Might as well free Manson and his group and what about Sirhan Sirhan?
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By their own admission psychiatrists cannot predict dangerousness and often release violent patients from facilities, claiming that they are not a threat to others, or grant them privileges that lessen security procedures in place for them.
Case in point: During the trial of Sirhan Sirhan for the murder of Senator Robert Kennedy, Sirhan admitted to the killing. His own notebooks contained written specific threats against the Senator; he had gone target shooting at gun clubs immediately prior to the crime; had told a man that he was going to kill Kennedy; and on the night of the killing, he had left a firing range with a loaded revolver and gone to the hotel where Kennedy was.
Undaunted by the facts, two defense psychiatrists and six psychologists claimed that Sirhan had been subjected to childhood traumas (bombings during the
1948 Arab‐Israeli War), hated his father and was a “paranoid schizophrenic” and, therefore, not responsible for the crime.
To refute defense psychiatric testimony, the prosecution introduced a psychiatrist of its own who confused matters still further by claiming that Sirhan was not “sick” enough to be excused for murder but was too “sick” to be executed.
The jury passed implicit judgment on the psychiatric testimony by finding Sirhan guilty. He is now serving a life imprisonment. |
