Re:Web Activity Used in Court to Portray State of Mind
by Natsu on Saturday July 05, 2014 @11:10PM
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I assume they plan to use it to argue that he wasn't very remorseful. When people are really depressed or sad, they often avoid anything pleasurable.
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Re:Web Activity Used in Court to Portray State of Mind
by danso on Saturday July 05, 2014 @11:21PM
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That reminds me of Rule 4 in the "Homicide Lexicon", in David Simon's fantastic non-fiction book, "Homicide", of the Baltimore homicide squad:
"An innocent man left alone in an interrogation room will remain fully awake, rubbing his eyes, staring at the cubicle walls and scratching himself in dark, forbidden places. A guilty man left alone in an interrogation room goes to sleep."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide:_A_Year_on_the_Killing...