Insanity — Jurisprudence.
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Limiting the therapeutic orgy : the right to refuse treatment / Robert Plotkin ; interviewed by Steven Feldman.
Mental Health Law Project lawyer on the Mental Patient Rights Movement and its legal perspectives.|LIMITING THE THERAPUTIC ORGY : THE RIGHT TO REFUSE TREATMENT / Robert Plotkin. – Robert Plotkin, attorney for the Mental Health Law Project in Washington D.C., discusses the different aspects of mental patients rights. He examines current laws, legal cases in…
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Diminished capacity
Greg Gordon produced this program about the impact of the Dan White verdict. The assassination of San Francisco’s openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk, and the subsequent lenient treatment of his assassin, Dan White, had trememdous impact on diminished capacity rulings on the gay community. This documentary explores that impact includes actualities and interviews. According to…
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Should diminished capacity be accepted as a defense in courts of law? / Charles Garry and Lee Coleman.
On the Dan White defense.|SHOULD DIMINSHED CAPACITY BE ACCEPTED AS A DEFENSE IN COURTS OF LAW? / Charles Garry and Lee Coleman. – SERIES: War of the words. – Dr. Coleman speaks against diminished capacity because he feels that psychiatrists cannot determine a person’s sanity| therefore, it is invalid for use in testimony in courts…