Psychiatrists found no sign of a mitigating mental illness, and he was jailed for life.
With a link made between obesity and soda, the brief moves onto (admittedly high-minded remarks on) the evolving domain of public health bodies beyond successes in mitigating mass illness as a function of poor sanitation and communicable disease.
That decision will turn on whether he can effectively argue that mitigating evidence like mental illness or childhood problems should call for a sentence of life in prison without parole.
Topical exposure to permethrin has often been implicated as a mitigating factor in the illnesses reported in Gulf War veterans.
It can all just decide to happen I can't carry on … I can't, I need to go abroad and visit my daughter" (Pt16) This woman wanted correction of the prolapse through surgery and thereby focussed on mitigating effects through curing illnesses.
Now, in my 50s, my verdict on Dad has stood unexamined for years: a flawed man, but more good than bad, with mental illness as a mitigating factor.
"The law says mental illness is a mitigating factor but unfortunately some jurors who are weighing the case don't see it that way," said Testa, the psychiatrist.
Something much more dramatic emerged when judges were asked whether they considered any "mitigating factors" (such as mental illness or lack of control on the man's part) that led them to shorten the sentence.
In agreeing to allow Furrow to plead guilty and receive a mandatory life prison term for his hate-motivated shooting rampage in the San Fernando Valley, prosecutors were following Justice Department protocols that require them to weigh mitigating factors, such as mental illness, when seeking the death penalty.
We believe that a causal association between these can only be assessed by carefully conducted clinical trials designed to show whether suppression of CMV has a mitigating effect on the severity of illness.
