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Man Pleads Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity

By Neil Shous, Esq.

Miguel Ramos, a 28-year-old Chino man, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges that he murdered his cousin after finding out that his wife and cousin had an affair. According to this news report in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Ramos shot and killed 25-year-old Valentin Barria at a house party in front of Barria?s wife and the couple?s 5-year-old son. Ramos pleaded both not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity to a murder charge. Ramos will be tried on the murder charge first. If convicted, then the trial will move to the next phase where the same jurors will determine whether Ramos was ?legally sane? at the time of the shooting. ?Legal insanity? is very much different from the psychological definition of mental illness...continue to full post

Full post as published by California Criminal Defense Blog on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).