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Albert Einstein said, “Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.” So you want to become a doctor or a lawyer? For some reason or other, these two words are often muttered together, like St. Paul and Minneapolis. Or like Dallas and Fort Worth. Or like Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Do these professions generate similar value to society?

Raymond M. Weber is accused of shooting and killing Savannah Theberge, 27, with ties to Utah and Georgia, and a 15-year-old girl from Elk Grove, during the early hours of Jan. 30, 2021, in an apartment in the 500 block of Rocky Hill Road in Vacaville.

A person is not criminally responsible for an act or omission if, at the time of doing the act or making the omission, he is in such a state of mental disease or natural mental infirmity as to deprive him of capacity to understand what he is doing, or of capacity to control his actions, or of capacity to know that he ought not to do the act or make the omission.

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An insanity defense can be difficult to prove. Find out about 10 people who tried to use the insanity plea.

From the murder of Fanny Adams to an attempted assassination of the Prime Minister, these desperate, sometimes inexplicable crimes still shape the way we see deliberate killing.

  Friday Feb 5, 2021 at 8:02 AM Feb 5, 2021 at 8:02 AM Columns share an author’s personal perspective. ***** Trump Derangement Syndrome isn’t just for snowflakes. It’s bipartisan now, an equal opportunity destroyer. It may also turn out to be former President Donald Trump’s greatest contribution to criminal justice reform. Trump Derangement Syndrome was once a tongue-in-cheek description of leftists who reacted dramatically, vehemently to Trump’s policies, s...