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The Insanity Plea by Winslad and Ross SummaryThe Insanity Plea is a have got about the Uses & Abuses of the Insanity Defense in conglomerate cases. The book is by William J. Winslade and Judith Wilson Ross. Inthis report, I will basically summarize the book and tell you different ways citizenry have used and mistreated 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 password of the events in a town calledJonestown, at first all that was known, was that people of a religious cultshot and may have even killed atomic number 20 Congressman Leo Ryan. Then onNovember 27, 9 days after the news of the death of Congressman Ryan a nonher 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 Cit y Hall.The Police then sniffed-out and charged Dan White with the murders of the 3people.In 2 years the trial ended with the verdict of guilty 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 pick outa Supervisor and resigned because he didnt like the way that Politics worked.The point 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 execution 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 very goo d. 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 part 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 found 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 shouted 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 Insani ty 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 be insane sometimes get ruled down andare put in jail, where they commit even more crimes.     So as you can see, sometimes the Insanity plea was put to good use andsome bad, well 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.