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When Michael lan Campbell, a would be actor, was brough before a jury on charges of threatening to “finish wha began” at the columbine High School shootings, his defense was a novel one : Internet addiction. According to his lawyer, who put forward the legal theory. Campbell was to immersed in the work of the internet that the could not telt fact from fiction, his threat, said his lawyer, was a virtual one, and not made with criminal intent (Janosfsky, 2000) Read the rest of this entry »

Guilty Of Murder In The First Degree

          That was the jury’s verdict in the case of George Franklin, Sr, who was charged with murdering his daughter’s plyamate. But this case ws different from -  most other murder cases. It was based on memories that had been repressed for twenty years. Franklin’s daughter claimed that she had forgotten everything she had once known about her father’s crime until two years earlier, when she began to have flashbacks of the event. Gradually, though, the memories became clearer in her mind, until she recalled her father lifting a rock over h is head and then seeing her friend lying on the ground, covered with blood. On the basis of her memories, her father was convicted – but then later cleared of the crime following an appeal of the conviction. Read the rest of this entry »