Insanity in the courtroom
By: produced by ABC News
Contributors: Martin, Michel; Films for the Humanities (Firm); ABC News
Series: PSY 430 (NU course); PSY 431 (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Insanity (Law); Forensic psychiatry
Other titles: Insanity in the courtroom : ; Mental illness and the search for justice; Nightline (Television program)
Description: "If a person is deemed mentally unfit to stand trial for a capital crime, should the state be allowed to administer drugs so the person is healthy enough to be tried and sentenced to death? In this program, ABC News correspondent Chris Bury reports on this legal paradox in the case of Russell Weston, a paranoid schizophrenic who allegedly killed two policemen in 1998 and whose lawyers have kept him from medication"--Publisher.
Notes: Originally aired as an episode of Nightline.

Host, Chris Bury; Correspondent, Michel Martin.

DVD.