Originally Posted By: AuntyM
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/dec/01/nation/la-na-court-combat1-2009dec01

"Our nation has a long tradition of according leniency to veterans in recognition of their service, especially for those who fought on the front lines as [George] Porter did," the justices said in a unanimous, unsigned opinion.
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That was a civilian case, but even the US Supreme Court understood what can happen to a man when he's been subjected to the horrors of war and having to kill or be killed.

Are the Supremes just making excuses?




I think everyone understands that... but it didn't change his conviction, they just set aside his sentence of death.

If the Court found that his PTSD rendered unable to tell the difference between right and wrong at the time he committed the murders (which is the M'Naughton rule, the standard for how an insanity plea or competency hearing is conducted), then that would be a wholly different matter.

Fish on...

Todd
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