Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
jennifer bigan was deemed insane for drowning her daughter in the bathtub
three years ago she's now then release from jail
she was deemed insane and not guilty by reason of insanity three years ago
and she is now basically it washes walking out of jail because doctors
determined that she had to regained her sanity
this is a woman from modesto california she admitted to killing her daughter in
twenty ten
she was found not guilty of *** by reason of insanity she was released from
jail tuesday doctors say she is now
saying
there were two relatives at home when bigan drowned her daughter and they
heard the girl splash in screen
but kinda got to the bathroom
the grows unconscious bigan had stabbed herself and lock yourself in the bedroom
now this is a rare ruling because
the judge decided
not to send her to a psychiatric hospital but the senate in jail instead
so
not guilty by reason of insanity
but judge censored in jail as opposed to to a psychiatric hospital
a lot of controversy about her released a school of law professor john myers
says people have to understand
she was not guilty by reason of insanity
if she is now saying according to doctors which according to doctor she is
there is no legal reason why she would have to remain in any kind of custody
because she was
not-guilty by reason of insanity and if he was not guilty why did you go to jail
uh... well that's the thing the ruling that the the treatment was being carried
out in jail as opposed to a sacred to cost overtake guesses at the discretion
of the judge
and again it is it's unusual for judge to make this attitude to decide on a
sentence like that's right
priming it the case african sanity to me
uh... more prosecutors say she should still be in jail
and deputy district attorney lynn cassia says she's a danger to society
she's not been evaluated properly now
people who are saying
if e if we take away at what this sounds like an say hold on a second
a district attorney says that she should not be al and she has been a value-added
properly
but doctors say they've evaluated her and she's saying and she's fine to be
out presumably the doctors do know more about this the district attorney
it just doesn't really sound right
for ready
is it reasonable does does the common person believe that someone could go
from doing what this woman did three years ago
the being perfectly sane three years later
yeah it was not just because you have a p_h_d_ doesn't mean you're infallible
when it comes to
uh... andy whatever by those mean you're infallible when it comes to the
decisions you're making uh...
personally i don't think anyone who commits a crime like this will ever be
completely sound in the head of mister being perhaps heavily medicated
uh... so i don't think that there was a lot lewis's assessment
i really don't know uh... certainly uh... i can't think of an example of a
person
in that you know that we can point to to say that well you know this person
committed a horrible crime they said it was temporary insanity and then they
just seem to live a normal right life the rest of their life
uh... but uh... stats are with theoretically possible yeah some people
are saying well ten the doctors guaranteed issue won't relapse of course
not all the doctors can do is do evaluation and say this but we we have
at
no reason to think she is insane right now
the other aspect here is not guilty by reason of insanity
it does imply that the perpetrator did nothing wrong
what if we said
guilty with the mitigating circumstance of insanity because in many cases that
seems to be a more accurate description of the crime rate it if the defendant
would still be guilty under the law but the sentencing guidelines would allow
for psychiatric treatment or something else but again that's a huge
change the legal system of course which which is uh... that that's it's just
yeah article thing i'm saying so it's a mess
but even in that case uh... david fight
if the person is guilty uh... with the you know saying that uh... the
mitigating circumstances being temporarily insane or whatever that
person might get out of jail ten years later and still committed a crime again
just like the person that's flat out immediately it's possible now anything
is possible
but the idea of just not guilty at all and then three years later she's walking
around
a lot of the bladder problem with this but again who are we to question the
doctors out or not that's that's a lot of counting the laws what's up are they
were questioning what the penalties are for the situation more than
what the doctors are saying about the patient's condition when i think is
putting aside the idea of whether she has her isn't insane at this point
in any case right they were questioning everything i know i just have any more
kids that's at will that the other thing should she be should she even be allowed
to have more children
after you you have killed one of your children
should she be allowed to have more children that man and how do i just like
that with our world now
met mandatory sterilization are no work over opening up an interesting door
their lives
i mean if i wrote the world should be in that uh... mental hospital for rest of
our life
i had sent me a thoughts on this