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Inchoateknowledge Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

legal case

1i00"Andrea Yates, the Texas mother charged with the murder of her five children, has a documented history of postpartum depression and psychiatric hospitalization, yet the district attorney prosecuting her case recently offered to take a possible death penalty off the table if she would withdraw her insanity plea."02i02br
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01i01font00Andrea Yates murdered all her 5 children. She has been suffering from mental disorder since she was born and , for this reason, has been in hospital many times.02font02i02br
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01i01font00The district attorney instituting the legal proceedings against her proposes that the consideration of her possible death penalty should be abandoned, provided she withdraw (subjunctive -- no 's' inflection in withdraw) the plea of insanity.02font02i02br
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01i01font00Is this not odd?02font02i02br
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01i01font00The text says the seriousness of the murder should be mitigated in case Jane Doe claims she is sane.02font02i02br
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01i01font00If she is sane, then she was fully aware of the seriousness of the crime she commited. 02font02i02br
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01i01font00It is hardly any mitigating circuimstance.02font02i02br
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01i01font00What is you understanding of this?02font02i02br
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01i00Thanks02i02br
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01i00PS: Are there any grammatical mistakes in the 01font00blue part02font00?02i0-
  

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1i 01font 00She has been suffering from mental disorder since she was born. 00No00. 'post-partum' means after the birth of her children, not her own birth.

— Nona the brit

  • 1i 01font 00She has been suffering from mental disorder since she was born.
  • 00No00.
  • 'post-partum' means after the birth of her children, not her own birth.
  • She has a history of post-natal depression.
  • She has been hospitalised for this but it doesn't necessarily mean many times.
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1i01font00She has been suffering from mental disorder since she was born. 00No00. 'post-partum' means after the birth of her children, not her own birth. She has a history of post-natal depression. She has been hospitalised for this but it doesn't necessarily mean many times. She might have only been in hospital once (but I agree that it does imply more t
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0It's not odd because the prosecution wants a conviction. If her insanity plea is accepted, then she'll 'get away with it' basically. So, the prosecution is basically saying that if her insanity plea is not accepted and she is found guilty then they'll push for the death penalty. But if she withdraws her insanity plea - thereby pretty much guaranteeing a conviction, they will not push for the
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1i01font00Hello Nona02font02i02br
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01i01font00yet02font00 the district attorney 02i02br
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01i00Oh yes.02i02br
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01i00Some of the things you objected to I interpreted clearly, but expressed wrongly.
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