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Few homicide cases have affected me as deeply as the 1993 death of 5-year-old Tavielle Kigas, who was starved to death by her mother in the family's Bangor apartment. The subsequent trial of Tonia Porter Kigas was one of the most painful events I have witnessed. Police played a videotape made shortly after Tonia Kigas was arrested in which she calmly told investigators how she occasionally would poke her head into the child's room and tell her that she was evil and had to die.
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Waukesha - An Oconomowoc man pleaded guilty Wednesday to bludgeoning his mother to death with an ax as she slept, and decided to have a judge rather than a jury decide whether he was criminally insane when he did it. Mark D. Totzke admitted in great detail to police that he killed Gloria Jean Totzke in the middle of the night last year, according to a criminal complaint, so his guilty plea Wednesday to committing the killing was not unusual under the circumstances.
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CRIMINAL LAW - Not guilty by reason of insanity; hospitalization; facility's motion to administer additional antipsychotic drugs; failure of trial court to render findings of fact under governing three-prong standard.
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The competence of criminal clients to join their attorneys in making decisions about their cases is important whether or not these come to trial. Research indicates that attorneys' paternalism explains much of their trial behavior and decisions about client competence. The findings of a study at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry suggest that competence in criminal trials should be more carefully evaluated and that some solution such as surrogate decisionmaking should be found for defendants who cannot stand trial.
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In her story, "Lovable Dr. [Leo Stanley] and His Weird Experiments at San Quentin," assistant editor Alice Yarish returned with readers to the days of yesteryear when surgical experimentation on prisoners was considered, in Doc's words, "thought provoking. Still, Stanley didn't see criminal insanity as a reason to ignore Doc Thompson's advice. "We have three or four hangings a year," Thompson reminded Stanley. "Why can't we slip a ball from one of those unclaimed guys and put it in some decrepit old con?" By the time he retired in 1951, Doc Stanley had "reinvigorated" nearly 10,000 prisoners-though only several dozen were done through the by-product of electric chair victims. "At first we did use the executed men, but later we found that lamb testicles contained the same powers," bragg...
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C. 2953.52; seal official records; not guilty by reason of insanity; criminal proceedings; final termination.
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..., he raised the affirmative defense of insanity, putting the burden on himself to prove by clear a... such severity that [he] did not know the criminal act was wrong." Second, he aimed to rebut the pros...
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Waukesha - Although he was mentally ill when he hacked his mother to death with an ax as she lay in bed, an Oconomowoc man was not criminally insane, a psychologist told a judge Thursday. Mark D. Totzke did not meet the state's legal requirements for criminal insanity at the time of the killing because he was able to obey the law and knew that what he did was wrong, psychologist Deborah Collins told Waukesha County Circuit Judge Lee S. Dreyfus Jr.
