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The author draws upon twenty years of experience to discuss the use and misuse of the insanity defense in such celebrated criminal cases as the Menendez brothers, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Joel Rifkin
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The New York area's premier forensic psychologist--the expert prosecutors turn to when a defendant claims insanity--looks back over her most celebrated cases to deliver a no-holds-barred critique of recent insanity defense abuses. Zeroing in on cases such as the Menendez brothers and Jeffrey Dahmer, Kirwin shows how unscrupulous defense attorneys and overzealous prosecutors have perverted the true purpose of the insanity defense. of photos.
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