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The Insanity exculpation by Winslad and Ross SummaryThe Insanity Plea is a book about the Uses & Abuses of the Insanity Defense invarious cases. The book is by William J. Winslade and Judith Wilson Ross. Inthis report, I pass on basically retell the book and tell you different ways throng gull used and abused the Criminal Justice System using The InsanityPlea.     I will first talk about the case of Dan White. On November 18, 1978,Preliminary reports began broadcasting news of the events in a town calledJ integritystown, at first all that was known, was that people of a religious cultshot and may have even killed California Congressman Leo Ryan. Then onNovember 27, 9 days by and by the news of the death of Congressman Ryan an opposite 2deaths happened. George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco, and Harvey Milk,a city supervisor and the leader of San Franciscos politically active gaycommunity, had been shot and killed at death in the San Francisco City Ha ll.The Police then sniffed-out and charged Dan White with the murders of the 3people.In 2 years the trial ended with the finding of fact of shamefaced on the account ofmanslaughter. He was later sentenced to 7 years and 8 months in a Prison,with a possibility of parole after 5. After the verdict there were Riotsbreaking out in the streets because of the verdict. Before hand he was electeda Supervisor and resigned because he didnt like the way that Politics worked.The smudge before, that I may not have mentioned, is that the defense arguedthat he was insane and that "a person with a normal background who was broughtup in a good home, something is obviously missing." Since he was being chargedon 3 accounts of Murder in the 1st, they somewhat bought the insane defense sothey lowered his charges to 1 account of voluntary manslaughter, where hereceived 7 years and 8 months with a possibility of parole after 5 years.In the summer of 1978, Lyman Bostock seemed to have it made ve ry good. Hewas one of the 3 highest paid players EVER in the American League and he washighly regarded by fans and sportscasters alike. Then one errie, summer nightat 1030 Lyman Bostock was gunned down at Fifth and Jackson in downtown Gary,Illinois while he was riding in the back seat of his uncles Buick with atwelve gauge shot gun, that was fired by a Mr Leonard Smith. Leonard Smithwas a 33 year... ...he CyprusHouses. He searched the house and prove nothing. He undid the leather toallow easy access to his gun as he came out of the building. A group of blackteenagers, including Randy approached the building and yelled out to Torsneyand asked if his apartment had been searched. Torsney immediately pulled hisgun and shot him in the head. Torsney was found with 5 years in a Loony Binwith help from other people.The book itself only gave the plain hard facts on the case and the authordid not say anything about his oppinion on any case so I will expand myoppinion. I think that the Insan ity Plea is often mis-used, ordianary peoplejust like you and me get of with only 4 years in a mental home for killingpeople. Also the people who actually ARE insane sometimes get ruled down andare identify in jail, where they commit even more crimes.     So as you can see, sometimes the Insanity plea was put to good use andsome bad, nearly I guess that is just an opinion. There were more cases left inthe book but those were the most important ones in the book, if I took the timeto do all of them, This report would be 20 pages long. I thank you for readingit, adios.