Doctor Stabs Nurse Repeatedly

[S.Rahman]

This is... why I want to be a doctor:


http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...114?hub=Canada

[Thirdfox]

I might have to defend people like that... and I'll probably win

ahhh... the ageless dilemma "money or truth?"

...the truth is overrated...

[S.Rahman]

Originally Posted by Thirdfox

I might have to defend people like that...

Dead people??

and I'll probably win

If you say so. But when both the plaintiff and defendant are dead... I dunnoo..

ahhh... the ageless dilemma "money or truth?"

...the truth is overrated...

Why tell the truth when lying can get your adrenaline pumping??

[claudia]

Originally Posted by Thirdfox

I might have to defend people like that... and I'll probably win

What, defend a man who killed his ex lover (whom he had threatened in the past) with the murder weapon left on the scene? What defence I wonder - manslaughter on the grounds of provocation/self defence? Or plain "he didn't do it"?

[Mr_faisal]

Originally Posted by S.Rahman

This is... why I want to be a doctor:


http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...114?hub=Canada

yes...i think we share the same ambitions for the same reasons

i guess i better not have a relationship once i become a doc, otherwise ill have thirdfox after me

[shawn_ellisuk]

Originally Posted by claudia

What, defend a man who killed his ex lover (whom he had threatened in the past) with the murder weapon left on the scene? What defence I wonder - manslaughter on the grounds of provocation/self defence? Or plain "he didn't do it"?

Maybe Canada with a substantial Francophone population will have the defence of "crime of passion" which is the equivalent to manslaughter and is due to emotional turmoil over a relationship.....? (i.e. wife kills husband over affair, husband kills mistress cos she might leave him, mistress kills client as she's afraid he'll go back to his wife.....)

[Thirdfox]

...and there is the plain defence of insanity... "it's clear my client was no longer in control of his functions and thus it cannot be proven that he had the mens rea to commit the crime of murder"... provocation could be argued on an obtuse scale, self-defence is a ridiculous claim...

Remember the burden of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt... (unless it's insanity where the onus shifts onto the defendent but the burden is reduced to "balance of probabilities"...)

...and that concludes law 101 children, until next time

[claudia]

Unless there's psychiatric evidence that he was actively mentally unwell at the time of the offence no defence lawyer is going to go down the "not guilty - insanity" route.
We don't know if she attacked him first so the defence of self-defence is a valid one, as is provocation.

As it's America he'll probably go for plea bargaining anyway.

[Thirdfox]

yes but you just need to convince the jury on the balance of probabilities that the client was acting without thought during the incident... the fact that he tried to commit suicide must be a strong indication that he is mentally unstable (at least the lawyers will present it like that )

[S.Rahman]

Originally Posted by Mr_faisal

yes...i think we share the same ambitions for the same reasons

i guess i better not have a relationship once i become a doc, otherwise ill have thirdfox after me

not if we kill him first.

I mean....... *reads over Hippocratic oath*