For failing to commit a dangerous patient.

Okay, I understand that issues of professional responsibility and the rights of the mentally ill can be complex. But this is what boggled my mind:    (more…)

How far should a lawyer go to present his client’s case, when his client is clearly a delusional paranoid schizophrenic?

I’d snark that “legal ethics” was an oxymoron if I hadn’t known so many good and decent lawyers in my lifetime.

His Majesty: “The media nowadays make their money by presenting a freak show, so naturally it’s the freaks who find their way into the news.”