<p>Well, this thread hit 1,000 posts. It sure didn’t take long.</p>
<p>Wow, this thread got to 1,000 posts and I’ve read every one of them.</p>
<p>Reading what I have about the husband, I think he feels that the state should provide a lawyer because he believes his wife was somewhat justified, a fact which I disagree with. Realizing that Bishop does not think like most people, I’m annoyed with the “I’m too good for this school” attitude she and her husband have expressed. The fact that she has a 180 IQ does not give her free reign to disrespect other people. Taking a line from the movie A Cinderella Story I’d tell Amy Bishop that she’s “not very pretty and not that smart.” Sure she may have been a good biologist, but she couldn’t get along with people and does not know everything there is to know. I’m a firm believer that a good personality can get one places and it appears that Bishop did not have such a personality. Have her husband mortgage or sell the house to help with lawyer fees and have the state pick up the rest of the tab after he cannot pay any more fees. Also, if I was him, I’d get a divorce ASAP.</p>
<p>Re her family: the children did not ask to be born to a sociopath (or whatever clinical definition fits her). I continue to hope that child protective services is involved so that at least the two minor children get the help they need. And I still shudder to think what life in that household was like.</p>
<p>Even if she could plead innocent by reason of insanity, she would need to be committed to a mental hospital and no college or private company would want to hire her.
“Do I still have a job?” She had one until May 31 or June 30, depending on which calendar UAH went by. Now, she certainly does not.</p>
<p>“Do I still have a job?” suggests she knows she did something wrong. Because why else would she even be wondering??</p>
<p>“It didn’t happen. They’re still alive.” suggests she’s either totally delusional or extremely remorseful and trying to “wish” it hadn’t happened. </p>
<p>I wonder what her antecedent for the word “it” is.</p>
<p>As I have stated before, insanity is not a medical definition but a legal one. It most states, it means that someone committing the crime did not know or understand that doing so was against the law. This is called the McNaughton rule. In a few states, there is the compelling arguement allowed where someone can be foudn not guilty by reason of insanity when they were compelled by something outside of their control to do the crime. That could be used for anything from a schizophrenic being compelled by their paranoid delusions to a brain tumor patient being compelled to strike out due to loss of control. I don’t know what specific law Alabama has. If it only has the first type, the defense will have a very tough time. Normally insanity defenses are rarely used and even more rarely successful. Actions such as practicing with the weapon beforehand, hiding the weapon afterwards, and denial of anyone dying, are all actions that signify awareness that killing is illegal.</p>
<p>I stopped reading the most recent posts, so I don’t know if someone posted this yet, but here you go:</p>
<p>[Alabama</a> professor’s lawyer regrets calling her ‘wacko’ - CNN.com](<a href=“Alabama professor's lawyer regrets calling her 'wacko' - CNN.com”>Alabama professor's lawyer regrets calling her 'wacko' - CNN.com)</p>
<p>HAHAHAHA…(read the article)…her attorney is giving jeff Foxworthy great material. Nuff said from this Yankee but for such a high profile case he is not doing his southern lawyers any favors…</p>
<p>My favorite southern lawyer was Sam Ervin … “just a simple country lawyer.”</p>
<p>This guy is really too much. </p>
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<p>The movie version is going to have a field day with this one. Every appalling stereotype of both the northeast and the south will be played up.</p>
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<p>Obviously Attorney Miller doesn’t suffer from this horrible affliction.</p>
<p>Naturally, LOL!</p>
<p>Your have been warned. Do not try to get your kids into MENSA or TAG. It’s not good for them. They might end up murdering people!</p>
<p>is this a cloned material ?</p>
<p>Here’s the whole quote
What a bozo
I am still waiting for them tor claim she has D.I.D. and one of her “alters” as they are called (different personalities), committed the crime.</p>
<p>QUOTE :Miller said his client is “trying to keep from cracking up down there emotionally,” and is worried that if she breaks down, officials in the jail might think she’s going to commit suicide.</p>
<p>Or just maybe she doesn’t give a damn, is in no danger of “cracking up” and is just trying to give an excuse for her lack of empathy… She is obviously unconcerned with killing the people who denied her . She is ,however, very interested in finding a way out of this.</p>
<p>of course this is just my opinion :)</p>
<p>I don’t think an insanity plea is going to fly if Alabama is like Texas. Look at the Andrea Yates case. She was convicted of capital murder in 2002 despite having documented severe mental illness for years! Now her conviction was overturned and she was subsequently found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2006. But still! I don’t see any jury buying an insanity plea. And Bishop’s lawyer seems like an idiot!</p>
<p>She was already on suicide watch. Wonder whenthat wuote about cracking up/suicide watch was from? And the husband thinks she whould have a court appointed lawyer because her behavior was justified?? Did he really say that??</p>
<p>And he can’t refi the house even if he wanted to. He would never in a gazillion years qualify for a mortgage. He doen’t have a stable income, and if they have other assets, they can use them to pay for an atty, not a loan.</p>
<p>Not surprised this thread hit 1000 posts. Lots of interesting twists and turns.</p>
<p>jym, I said that based in the husband’s actions and “statements.” I sense a lot of East Coast bias with him even though I remember someone mentioning that he is originally from Alabama, so maybe it’s some mind control on Amy’s part.</p>
<p>Please. Let’s not turn this into East Coast elitism vs. Southern hickishness.</p>
<p>Why should Anderson, an Alabama native, be accused of East Coast elitism just because he exhibits contempts for people who are less well educated than himself? Why can’t it be just plain arrogance–which is not a regional trait, last time I checked? From what I learned from this case, Huntsville is full of highly educated folks–and not all of them from the East Coast, I presume.</p>
<p>Braintree, where Amy Bishop comes from, is probably less full of highly educated folks than Huntsville.</p>