Friday, April 15, 2011

Drunken Defenses Gaining Popularity

It is no secret that alcohol can have a powerful influence on people. However, there has been a recent increase in people blame alcohol for any of the heinous crimes of the things he told police.
One example involved a recent case where Michael Enright, a student at the University of New York, a taxi driver stabbed by a Muslim. Many Enriquez Enriquez's friends say it is not violent, but only has a drinking problem that forces him to act irrationally. In another case, a 25-year-old Jose Rojas, claimed that he drank so much that he could not remember pushing another man in a moving train on the street 23.
But it might be credible to some, "I was too drunk!" defense does not hold as much as its claimants wish. It is a trend that may have started in the murder of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1979, where the man responsible for the crimes said his sudden excess of junk food have decreased their ability to think rationally turned him into depression, and took him to do so.
Although not always receive a criminal acquitted of all charges, in many cases, however, the demands of being too drunk can lead to significantly milder punishment. In any case, however, a defendant's psychological evaluation is crucial.

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