Trial of Karen McCarron: Day 7
Post updated January 16, 1.05am.
On Monday, psychiatrist Joseph Glenmullen testified that former pathologist Karen McCarron was suffering from psychotic depression when she killed her 3-year-old autistic daughter, Katherine “Katie” McCarron, on May 13, 2006. On Tuesday, January 15th, another psychiatrist, Dr. Terry Killian, took the stand and said McCarron knew what she was doing when she allegedly murdered her three year old daughter who had autism, HOI News reports:
The psychiatrist who took the stand Tuesday said there was nothing to suggest McCarron didn’t know killing her daughter was wrong.
He said over 50 people saw McCarron around the time Katie was killed and no one thought she was psychotic.
The doctor said McCarron has recurrent major depression.
He said she went off her medication a few months before her daughter Katie was killed.
McCarron has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Closing arguments in the trial are expected on Wedesday.
Moi has a recent post about McCarron, mental illness, and the penal system. Ari Ne’eman, President of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, has written about howphony ransom notes can have real consequences in Talking Justice.
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4 opinions for Trial of Karen McCarron: Day 7
Kev
Jan 16, 2008 at 5:50 am
This is Joseph Glenmullen who has no published science in PubMed of any kind on any subject whatsoever.
The same Glenmullen who has a kooky website exhorting the evils of Psych meds, beloved by Scientologists.
I took the liberty of asking a US Doctor friend about his Harvard status. Here’s what this friend said:
“Harvard lists him as a “clinical instructor”, which usually just means that he has admitting privileges in one of their hospitals (Cambridge, in this case) but only “teaches” in the sense that residents and medical students observe him work and do his scut-work for him.”
Regan
Jan 16, 2008 at 11:00 am
“People who are rational and in control of their senses do stupid things at times,” including murder, Killian said. “At that moment, they were angry enough to do something stupid.”
Killian said he reviewed the hundreds of pages of documents in McCarron’s file and has interviewed her but never found any evidence that she was insane or suffered any type of psychosis before or after the killing.
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“Jurors will have to apply the state’s legal definition of insane, which says:
“A person is insane and not criminally responsible for his conduct if at the time of the conduct, as a result of mental disease or mental defect, he lacks substantial capacity to appreciate the criminality of his conduct.”
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“Jurors will have four options to choose from on each of the charges: guilty, not guilty, guilty but mentally ill or not guilty by reason of insanity, said assistant Tazewell County state’s attorney Kirk Schoenbein.
The sentencing range for first-degree murder is between 20 and 60 years, Schoenbein said. But because Katie was younger than 12 years old, that sentencing range increases to 60-100 years.”
http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/23607.asp
David
Jan 16, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Thanks for the info Kev. I wouldn’t trust Joseph Glenmullen.
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