Do you believe in "temporary insanity" plea?

[Gunslinger]

I know I do:

 
Lawyer Stabs Neighbor Believing He Molested 2-Year-Old Daughter

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

 

 
 
 
 
FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A lawyer climbed through a neighbor's bedroom window and stabbed him to death after being told by a family member that the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter, authorities say.

Barry James, 58, was stabbed in the chest nearly a dozen times Monday. The lawyer, Jonathon Edington, 29, was charged with murder and burglary and was released on $1 million bail Wednesday.

Capt. Gary MacNamara said that police had not received a complaint about the child being assaulted before the killing, and "we have no indication it's true or not true."

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Edington's attorney, Michael Sherman, said the information came from Edington's wife. "The daughter gave the mother information which was alarming and disturbing. The mom relayed it to her husband. That was the spark," Sherman said.

James' 87-year-old mother discovered his body. When officers went to Edington's home, they found him standing by his kitchen sink with what appeared to be blood on him, and a large kitchen knife next to him on a counter, authorities said

"He's in shock," Edington's attorney said. "This is the most unexpected turn of events one can imagine with this young man's background."

Police had gone to the neighborhood before, when Edington called to complain that he could see James through a window, police said. "Either he was partly clothed or revealed parts of his anatomy that were inappropriate," MacNamara said.

Edington, a graduate of Syracuse University and Fordham University Law School, has been practicing patent law, Sherman said. Police said Edington has no criminal record.

Rita James declined to comment on her son's death.

James served two days behind bars in 2001 on a drunken driving charge, according to the state Correction Department.

"He had some bizarre behavior over the last month," said Darrell Maynard, a neighbor. "He drove his car through his garage, hit the other neighbor's building."

Another time a neighbor found James intoxicated on the street, Maynard said. James shouted obscenities at children, he said.

As for Edington, Maynard said: "Something had to happen that was terrible for this to have occurred." Edington "seemed like a computer geek or something. He was not anybody you would ever feel you were threatened by."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,211323,00.html
 

[Holden McGroin]

What if he killed that guy for nothing?  

What if the dead guy was just a drunkard who just liked to yell at kids and it went no farther than that?

[J_A_B]

That's not temporary insanity, that's manslaughter (killing someone in a fit of blind rage).

J_A_B

[Sandman]

Temporary insanity is a load of bull****.

[Gunslinger]

and if it was true and your daughter?

[lukster]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
and if it was true and your daughter?

I'd call it pest extermination and send the state a bill.

[nirvana]

Why no, there are medications for that.  If everyone would just take some prozac and calm down, we could all sip beers on beaches.  I say he was out of line stabbing some guy when he could have probably just as easily worked the system, he is (was) a lawyer.

[Sandman]

I hope that Edington doesn't have any other children because he's effectively ended his own life. He's going to prison. He broke into another man's home and killed he killed that man. Justified or not, he's done.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by Sandman
I hope that Edington doesn't have any other children because he's effectively ended his own life. He's going to prison. He broke into another man's home and killed he killed that man. Justified or not, he's done.

Yup very true.  What he did was wrong, but as a father I don't know if I could restrain myself in such circumstances.  At least in prison he might not have it so bad killing an alleged child molester.

[Dux]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
... was charged with murder and burglary...

Burglary...? I think there's more to this story than is being reported.

[Elfie]

Originally posted by Dux
Burglary...? I think there's more to this story than is being reported.

Yeah....the guy climbed through his neighbors window uninvited.....burglary....

[lukster]

Originally posted by Sandman
I hope that Edington doesn't have any other children because he's effectively ended his own life. He's going to prison. He broke into another man's home and killed he killed that man. Justified or not, he's done.

I bet he does 10 years max.

[Dux]

I stand corrected... I thought burglary was about stealing stuff. Just looked it up.
Thanks, Elfie.

[Elfie]

Originally posted by Dux
I stand corrected... I thought burglary was about stealing stuff. Just looked it up.
Thanks, Elfie.

I used to think it was just about stealing stuff too until there was an issue with a football recruit that was apparently invited to a girls dorm room. When he tryed to *get some*, she asked him to leave, he got charged with burglary and sexual assault. (paraphrased.)

So apparently even if you are invited in, you can still be charged with burglary if the person decides they dont want you there anymore.

[LePaul]

Gun, that's an excuse people use when they refuse to think the law applies to them

I'm surprised you find this attack on a potentially innocent person is OK