Comments on: Can you be forgiven for committing a horrible crime if you have a brain tumor? https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/27/can-you-be-forgiven-for-committing-a-horrible-crime-if-you-have-a-brain-tumor/ Sat, 28 Jan 2017 03:37:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Samuel Gardner https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/27/can-you-be-forgiven-for-committing-a-horrible-crime-if-you-have-a-brain-tumor/#comment-456930 Sat, 28 Jan 2017 03:37:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23583#comment-456930 There’s also rather famously an example of a man who raped a woman while sleepwalking.

]]> By: George Dawson https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/27/can-you-be-forgiven-for-committing-a-horrible-crime-if-you-have-a-brain-tumor/#comment-456929 Sat, 28 Jan 2017 03:33:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23583#comment-456929 Have not read the book, but it doesn’t sound like anything new here. In clinical psychiatry organic brain disease is commonplace and violence crimes are rarely defended with a not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) defense even when it is apparent that that the mental illness was a proximate cause of the violence.

Very difficult to prove that an arachnoid cyst (the problem lesion mentioned in the post) has any effect on behavior even with a mass effect on the brain.

]]> By: Bernard J. https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/27/can-you-be-forgiven-for-committing-a-horrible-crime-if-you-have-a-brain-tumor/#comment-456928 Sat, 28 Jan 2017 02:27:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23583#comment-456928 One link is still disappearing. Look for “My Brain made me do it” at putlockers.

]]> By: Bernard J. https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/27/can-you-be-forgiven-for-committing-a-horrible-crime-if-you-have-a-brain-tumor/#comment-456927 Sat, 28 Jan 2017 02:25:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23583#comment-456927 http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/my-brain-made-me-do-it

]]> By: Bernard J. https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/27/can-you-be-forgiven-for-committing-a-horrible-crime-if-you-have-a-brain-tumor/#comment-456926 Sat, 28 Jan 2017 02:25:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23583#comment-456926 Hmmm, disappearing posts again. Too many links?

http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/852034627793/my-brain-made-me-do-it

]]> By: L.Long https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/27/can-you-be-forgiven-for-committing-a-horrible-crime-if-you-have-a-brain-tumor/#comment-456925 Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:37:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23583#comment-456925 You can forgive anyone of any thing, don’t care! The real question is can it be determined if his behavior is now ‘normal’ or could the damage cause more incidents? Still messed up? stays locked up, seems OK? then let go!

]]> By: Wow https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/27/can-you-be-forgiven-for-committing-a-horrible-crime-if-you-have-a-brain-tumor/#comment-456924 Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:13:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23583#comment-456924 “But a lot of states require that the person not be capable of knowing the difference between right and wrong.”

That;s your opinion. You’re wrong.

]]> By: Wow https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/27/can-you-be-forgiven-for-committing-a-horrible-crime-if-you-have-a-brain-tumor/#comment-456923 Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:13:13 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23583#comment-456923 “I have not cried about it.”

That’s your opinion. Mine is different. 200 posts and your own claims indicate otherwise.

]]> By: RickA https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/27/can-you-be-forgiven-for-committing-a-horrible-crime-if-you-have-a-brain-tumor/#comment-456922 Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:10:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23583#comment-456922 Greg #10:

Yes.

It depends on the state.

But a lot of states require that the person not be capable of knowing the difference between right and wrong.

So if you throw your wife out the window because you are mentally ill – but know it is wrong while you are doing it (say because a voice told you to do it) – you are probably still going to jail (or maybe a mental hospital).

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/01/27/can-you-be-forgiven-for-committing-a-horrible-crime-if-you-have-a-brain-tumor/#comment-456921 Fri, 27 Jan 2017 18:02:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23583#comment-456921 The defense is usually an insanity or mental competency defense.

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