Insanity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Insanity write by Charles Patrick Ewing. This book was released on 2008-04-07. Insanity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The insanity defense is one of the oldest fixtures of the Anglo-American legal tradition. Though it is available to people charged with virtually any crime, and is often employed without controversy, homicide defendants who raise the insanity defense are often viewed by the public and even the legal system as trying to get away with murder. Often it seems that legal result of an insanity defense is unpredictable, and is determined not by the defendants mental state, but by their lawyers and psychologists influence. From the thousands of murder cases in which defendants have claimed insanity, Doctor Ewing has chosen ten of the most influential and widely varied. Some were successful in their insanity plea, while others were rejected. Some of the defendants remain household names years after the fact, like Jack Ruby, while others were never nationally publicized. Regardless of the circumstances, each case considered here was extremely controversial, hotly contested, and relied heavily on lengthy testimony by expert psychologists and psychiatrists. Several of them played a major role in shaping the criminal justice system as we know it today. In this book, Ewing skillfully conveys the psychological and legal drama of each case, while providing important and fresh professional insights. For the legal or psychological professional, as well as the interested reader, Insanity will take you into the minds of some of the most incomprehensible murderers of our age.
Murder and Madness
Murder and Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Murder and Madness write by Donald T. Lunde. This book was released on 1975. Murder and Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Of Murder and Madness
Of Murder and Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Of Murder and Madness write by Gerry Spence. This book was released on 1995-10-15. Of Murder and Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This riveting, blow-by-blow account of the trial of Joe Esquibel is told by his attorney, Gerry Spence. Joe Esquibel, an unemployed Mexican-American shot and killed his Anglo wife in the presence of eight witnesses, including a deputy sheriff. Spence developed the defense which successfully convinced the jury to find his client not-guilty by reason of insanity.
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Devil and Sherlock Holmes write by David Grann. This book was released on 2011-01-11. The Devil and Sherlock Holmes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager—and one of the most gifted reporters and storytellers of his generation—comes a “horrifying, hilarious, and outlandish” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of gripping true crime mysteries about people whose obsessions propel them into unfathomable and often deadly circumstances. "[Grann is] one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine Whether David Grann is investigating a mysterious murder, tracking a chameleon-like con artist, or hunting an elusive giant squid, he has proven to be a superb storyteller. In The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, Grann takes the reader around the world, revealing a gallery of rogues and heroes with their own particular fixations who show that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Look for David Grann’s latest bestselling book, The Wager!
Harms Way
Harms Way - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harms Way write by Joel-Peter Witkin. This book was released on 1994. Harms Way available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inevitable death and our agony to attain Utopia have made existence a form of pathology. We are left with the secret need for redemption which few of us will understand or witness. This need still lives in acts of love, courage and art. In the images included in this book it is found in the conjoined destinies of artist and subject, phantoms on either side of that curtain we call photography. Implicit in these photographs is the brutal extreme of their purpose and an intimation however distant to their makers that something was manifested beyond the event itself.
