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More Support for North Carolina Legislation

By Steve Hall

Today's Fayetteville Observer carries the OpEd, "Law needed for when courts deal with mental illness."  It's written by Debra Dihoff, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness North Carolina.Life or death decisions - not something we all face every day. But that's just what the jury in Fayetteville faced following the episode in April of 2004, when Abdullah Shareef stole a city van, hit and injured David McCaskill, Gary Weller and Robert Fortier, then ran over and killed Lonel Bass. The National Alliance on Mental Illness North Carolina expresses our sorrow to all of the victims involved in this tragedy.What's different here is that Shareef had a severe mental illness at the time this crime was committed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 06, 2010 (boomark / email).