Dylann Roof trial resumes: hate crimes and the insanity defense
The Christian Science Monitor - 11/28/2016
“Even if there’s compelling evidence that insanity is plausible, juries certainly don’t buy it,” James Alan Fox, who studies criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston, told NPR shortly after the June 2015 shooting in Charleston. “They look at nine people killed and they believe, not wrongly, but they do believe that someone who will get away with murder if they are found not guilty by reason of insanity. There’s nothing here [in Roof’s case] that would suggest that he didn’t know what he was doing.”
“Even if there’s compelling evidence that insanity is plausible, juries certainly don’t buy it,” James Alan Fox, who studies criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston, told NPR shortly after the June 2015 shooting in Charleston. “They look at nine people killed and they believe, not wrongly, but they do believe that someone who will get away with murder if they are found not guilty by reason of insanity. There’s nothing here [in Roof’s case] that would suggest that he didn’t know what he was doing.”
