What's your defense? How do you wish to plea? When a young man -grandson- of Dorothy Dunn is found dead inside her home everyone begins to question everything.
From her ability to understand right from wrong, to her motives, to the autopsy results, and the family connections and past disturbances in the home.
Everything is scrutinized, examined, dissected and what results is the ultimate question of the Insanity defense and what is needed for a solid conviction of murder.
As a Master in criminal justice we studied this topic of Mens Rea extensively and I found the past cases the most interesting with the crimes codes being discussed. Each individual case that led to this point, the fact of external v internal factors (nature v nature) and many more were discussed.
This was perfect for those of us with legal/criminal and similar backgrounds who've dealt with prosecutors, attorneys, and defense and who've been told to go to law school for the same.
The fact that the length of time the boy remained in that state was alarming, not to mention her other kids that all had mental illness, behavioral, or criminal histories.
Need intent to injure, need to show the intent to cause bodily harm, need to show she knew the consequences of such actions.
This was a rough and tough one to read through as it was heartbreaking especially for the one daughter who truly seemed to want a connection and a belief that her mother was normal on so many levels.
Just heartbreaking.
Thank you to Susan, the pub, NetGalley, and Amazon Kindle for this ARC in exchange for this honest review.
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