The issues of insanity, getting the MURDERER away, from the DEATH PENALTY here!!! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
The case of the railroad police officer’s murder on the job, the High Subsidiary Courts in Tainan started its court sessions yesterday, Lee’s mother, due to how her husband’s funeral being today, she’d, not shown up at the hearing; the Collectivist Court will decide on whether or not the perpetrator, Cheng will get another psych evaluation, the case will open trial on another day.
The first trial of the Chiayi District Court found that Cheng was not guilty by way of him being diagnosed with schizophrenia, the district attorney filed for an appeal, on May 25th, the High Subsidiary Court of Tainan started the preparation procedures for the case opening, the officer’s father showed up to listen, on June 4th, he’d died of a heartbreak, today is his funeral; Lee’s mother was sorting through the funerals, and didn’t make the time to go to court; the attorney the family hired, Lin stated, that Lee’s mother already filed to be included in the hearings, that from now on, she will be there each and every time the court is in session.
Both the district attorney, and the attorney hired by the family, Lin and Lin believed that the psych evaluation from the Taichung V.M.H. was flawed, that it isn’t evidentiary, demanded that the man who’d murdered the railroad police officer get sent to Chenggong University Hospital, or Chimei Hospital to be reevaluated.
Lin stated, that the original evaluation wasn’t careful enough, there’s no consensus of the first and the second time, in the reports, at first, it’d stated that Cheng was lucid, he showed no sign of abnormality, but the conclusions stated that he’d lacked judgment; the original I.Q. test of Cheng showed 76, and, mildly retarded I.Q. score is between 50 and 69, that Cheng wasn’t mentally retarded.
Lin asked for the evaluation again, to find if Cheng had antisocial personality tendencies, if he’d lost control of his behaviors due to schizophrenia, not taking the medications for it, or if he had an acute relapse at the time when he’d murdered the railroad police officer.
Cheng’s attorney, Chen opposed the reevaluation of Cheng’s mental states, believed, that as Cheng committed the murder, he was found to not have any control over his own behavior because he was having a relapse, that the reevaluation couldn’t tell if he was having a relapse when he’d murdered the railroad police officer or not. The judge sent the decision to the Collectivist Courts to decide in the end.
And so, it may be, that the attorney of this CAPITAL MURDERER is trying to get him off the death penalty, by requesting another evaluation, and this can be, a HUGE hole in the system, because how would you KNOW, if the individual was having a relapse of a mental illness when s/he committed a serious crime such as murder? And just because there’s the history of illness, that still does NOT mean, that the man who’d killed someone in cold blood is incapable of telling right from wrong when he’d committed the murder.