CLOSE Kellen Winslow II was recently charged with the rape of two transient women and a homeless community in San Diego is now shaken because of it. USA TODAY
To help his cause, they’ve considered a strategy that might show Winslow lacked “the required mental state” to willfully commit such crimes and have pushed to have two psychiatrists testify about him at trial, now scheduled for May 13, according to court records obtained by USA TODAY Sports.It carries risk. “Doing so would all but concede Mr.
“We will make the decision when the time comes,” Carlos told USA TODAY Sports this week about a possible mental impairment defense for Winslow. His attorneys then tried to have that evidence kept out of trial, arguing Winslow’s DNA sample wasn’t properly obtained and therefore shouldn’t be admitted. The judge rejected it last week.
It might be a difficult legal needle to thread. Independent experts note that California law strictly limits mental defect defenses at trial to help make it difficult for violent offenders to get off the hook. The absence of a definitive CTE test for the living also restricts the ability to argue he has it.
Future CTE defense?CTE symptoms include impulse control problems, suicidal thoughts, depression and emotional instability. In theory, it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch that CTE also could contribute to a criminal bent. “We kicked it around for a quite bit and we did the research,” said Baez, who wrote Unnecessary Roughness: Inside the Trial and Final Days of Aaron Hernandez. “We kept coming back to the main fact that his defense was one of innocence, not one of mitigation . That’s why it never went past the think-tank stage."
Rapists go to Hell, so why not expedite the process?
Bad deal always liked him when he was a Hurricane and loved his Dad who was a Missouri Tiger Love Both colleges today Still bad for Jr he’ll have to suck it up!
Not a defect just a thug.