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Using Mental Illness as an Excuse for Committing a Crime 1 The newspaper article I will be discussing is titled: Judge Sentence Colorado theater shooter to life in prison plus 3,318 years by Associated Press. James Holmes unleashed a murderous attack on a Colorado Theater was sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 3,318 years. This is the maximum that is allowed by the law. Survivors, relatives and jurors were happy to see the gunman brought to justice after waiting three long years. Judge Carlos A. Samour ordered James Holmes, twenty eight years of age, to serve twelve consecutive life sentences, one for each of the people who was killed in the 2012 attack. Samour then added 3,312 years for seventy convictions of attempted murder and six years for an explosive charge. The judge felt that the defendant deserved no sympathy and that’s why he gave him the maximum sentence under the law. James Holmes was an angry quitter who gave up on …show more content…

This was tested on normal volunteers, chronic pain patients, or any group that was asked to produce a submaximal or malingered effort or a malingered test profile. Out of the 328 references, only 68 were related to one of the topics above and to pain. The references were then reviewed and sorted into 12 topic areas. Each topic was then rated for scientific quality by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR). It was rated for evidence presented in the reviewed study. The guidelines of the Research (AHCPR) were used to rate the strength and consistency of the research evidence in each topic. For the results, the studies indicated that malingering and dissimulation do occur within the chronic pain setting. Malingering can be present in 1.25-10.4 of chronic pain patients but because of poor study quality the percentage

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