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Jeffrey Dahmer Case Summary

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In the case of Dahmer. Vs. Wisconsin, Dahmer was arrested from his apartment (1991) when one of his upcoming victims, Tracy Edwards, escaped and brought the police back to Dahmer’s apartment. For the following 2 weeks, Dahmer was questioned about his murders in which he confessed to have murdered as well as consume parts of the 16 young men he had killed since 1987. He waived to have a lawyer present as he wished to put an end to all the horror he created. Jeffrey Dahmer was born in 1960 in West Allis Wisconsin. At age 15, Dahmer began to socially seclude himself and become enraptured with dissecting dead animals. In 1988 his grandparents kicked him out after being arrested, and bought an apartment on the West side. Shortly after, Dahmer was arrested for drugging and fondling a 13-year-old boy. For the following years after he was released for his 5-year probation, Dahmer killed over 17 male victims. He was indicted for 15 of them and went to trial for them. …show more content…

The issue of the case was to determine Dahmer’s mental stability, and whether he suffered from a personality disorder/illness. The defense argued that Dahmer was driven to his hateful acts as a result of an obsession that he could not control due to a mental disease. Through numerous trials, expert doctors and psychiatrists were brought in to testify and diagnose Dahmer. On both sides, there were doctors that diagnose Dahmer in correlation to their argument. For example, the final defense expert diagnosed Dahmer with schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, alcohol dependency, etc. Dahmer’s defense attorney, Gerald Boyle, supported his argument that the murders of Jeffrey Dahmer were compulsive and not based on choice. He based his support on the testimonies of the all mental health

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On the night of July 22, 1991, Milwaukee enforcement officers took notice of a man running and stumbling down the street. When confronted, he said that a man had threatened him with a butcher’s knife. After arriving at Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment, Dahmer allowed the police to search the apartment. When the officials entered, they were hit with a putrid odor and had discovered various body parts scattered about his apartment that belonged to 11 of his victims, as well as Polaroid pictures of his victims' post-mortem in indecent poses. Dahmer was arrested on sight and taken into custody (“Serial Killers”).

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There is also an inclination to believe that if he had not suffered from this state, then the offence would not have been committed, specially not in the barbaric way it was done. Thus, it cannot be concluded that the accused willfully preformed the act, nor that the mens rea and the actus reus coincided while he was not in a psychotic state. (Roach, 113) Related to this finding is another element that supports the verdict of the Honorable Judge, which is the Principle of Fundamental Justice that states that no one should be “punished for morally involuntary actions.” (Roach, 82) A person who successfully raises the mental disorder defence is considered to be morally innocent of the act because they were not acting freely, in this case, free from psychotic ideations.

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