Criminal
Jun. 21, 2017
The president and the insanity defense
As Rutherford B. Hayes said, "The calamity of insanity is one which may touch very nearly the happiness of the best of our citizens."
James Attridge
Law Ofc of James Attridge
270 Divisadero St #3
San Francisco , CA 94117
Phone: (415) 552-3088
Email: jattridge@attridgelaw.com
U Denver School of Law
James is an attorney and mediator in San Francisco. He is writing a book about presidential legal careers.
"The calamity of insanity is one which may touch very nearly the happiness of the best of our citizens. We all know that in some of its thousands of forms it has carried grief and agony unspeakable into many a happy home. We must all wish to see such rules in regard to it established as would satisfy an intelligent man if, instead of this friendless girl, his own sister or his own daughter were on trial. And surely to establish such rules will be a most noble achievement of that intelligen...
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