… “I think she’s wacko,” said Roy Miller, [Amy Bishop’s lawyer.] … “[S]he’s probably one of the nicest ladies you’d meet.” …
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… “I think she’s wacko,” said Roy Miller, [Amy Bishop’s lawyer.] … “[S]he’s probably one of the nicest ladies you’d meet.” …
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February 19th, 2010 at 3:35AM
As a next step, she will be suing for reinstatement as a professor and for tenure – the university must not discriminate against differently-conscious (hope this is the politically correct word for whacko)
February 19th, 2010 at 4:22AM
econprof: Differently-conscious is good.
February 19th, 2010 at 7:26AM
Insanity defense on the way. She says she can’t remember the shootings. She’s preparing the way, as she was even at her arrest where she can be heard denying it happened. She got away with it before, so why not this time?
February 19th, 2010 at 9:09AM
I agree with Joe, though I can hardly blame her lawyer. Shoot people sitting around a table in front of a bunch of witnesses and get arrested right after and your options for a defense are pretty limited.
I have a hard time imagining this will fly in Alabama. Plus fleeing the scene and stashing the gun are big obstacles to an insanity defense.
February 19th, 2010 at 9:46AM
Well, it’s a long way from ‘not remembering’ to ‘not responsible’. I don’t see a direct connection, and I’m not from Alabama.
February 19th, 2010 at 10:36AM
I guess wacko must be a technical legal term…
February 19th, 2010 at 1:18PM
Yikes! This story can only get more strange, it seems.
February 19th, 2010 at 7:54PM
I agree with David Stone. Still, a lawyer who uses an imprecise, derogatory term like “wacko” can’t be a very good one.
February 21st, 2010 at 1:08AM
I would get a new lawyer if mine used a term like “wacko”. A lawyer might say that about a client in private but never to the media. He just wants to get off the case.
Amnesia about a criminal event is never a basis for an insanity defense.