story enters legal expert phase
The insanity plea is used in fewer than 1 percent of felony cases and rarely succeeds, said Thomas Hafemeister, director of legal studies at the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
``I must give him his due. He has considerably cretinized me.'' Lautréamont
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