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Insanity Plea

Insanity Plea. Jeffrey Howorth & Michael Gambler. Jeffrey Howorth. Crime: Shot parents: Mother: 9 times (3 head and 6 body) Father: 5 times (3 head and 2 body) Note left at scene for brother: “I told you I would do it Steve. You can’t say I didn’t warn you.”. Background of Howorth.

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Insanity Plea

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  1. Insanity Plea Jeffrey Howorth & Michael Gambler

  2. Jeffrey Howorth • Crime: Shot parents: • Mother: 9 times (3 head and 6 body) • Father: 5 times (3 head and 2 body) • Note left at scene for brother: “I told you I would do it Steve. You can’t say I didn’t warn you.”

  3. Background of Howorth • Fell our of car and hit head - age 2 • Result: organic brain dysfunction • Age 5: diagnosed with two learning disabilities: • Couldn’t comprehend non-verbal info • Poor large / small motor skills

  4. Howorth (con’t) • Remediation ended grade 7 • Factors prior to shooting: • Poor SAT scores • Poor academic performance • Not measuring up to parent’s ex-pectations (Jeff’s mind)

  5. Factor’s - Depression

  6. Howorth’s diagnoses • Gerald Cooke, Forensic Psycholo-gist • “Killing was a manifestation of his having no coping skills.” • Legally insane person visibly no different from sane person

  7. Michael A. Gambler • Shot 15 year old Kevin Kleppinger in Emmaus - 24 Aug 00 • Insanity plea rejected by Judge Robert L. Steinberg • Arguments by defense attorney, Richard W. Kolosky:

  8. Gambler (con’t) • 1. Disinhibition from alcohol: drank 3 to 6 six-packs of 16 ounce beer: “incapable of forming a specific intent to kill” - rejected since it was voluntary • 2. Homosexual panic - victim accidentally spit on arm of

  9. Gambler continued • Gambler than wiped off by victim - joking by other spectators - reject-ed: not disease of mind • 3. Schizotypal personality dis-order - rejected as not standing on own merits

  10. Psychological Tests Used • 1. Rorschach Test – ink blots (examples) • 2. TAT – Thematic Apperception Test • 3. MMPI – Minnesota Multiphasic Per-sonality Inventory

  11. TAT – Thematic Apperception Test • 1. Must be ten years or older • 2. Measures subjects reactions to 31 picture cards • 3. Subject tells story about each • 4. Determine personal-ity, internal conflict, dominant drives and interests

  12. MMPI – Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Test • 1. Series of yes or no questions • 2. Measures orienta-tion, immediate and short term recall, language and the ability to follow dir-ections

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