INSANITY VERDICT SENDS MOTHER TO MENTAL UNIT.Byline: - Cecilia Chan A Port Hueneme Port Hueneme (wī'nē`mē), city (1990 pop. 20,319), Ventura co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; founded 1870, inc. 1948. It has an artificial deep-sea harbor and is the site of a huge naval construction-battalion (Seabee) center. mother was found not guilty by reason of insanity not guilty by reason of insanity n. plea in court of a person charged with a crime who admits the criminal act, but whose attorney claims he/she was so mentally disturbed at the time of the crime that he/she lacked the capacity to have intended to commit a crime. Friday of trying to drown her two school-age children in Channel Islands Harbor two years ago. Narinder Virk, who is out on bail, was taken into custody after the verdict was read and will be transported to a state mental facility - most likely Patton State Hospital History Patton State Hospital is located located in San Bernardino county, California. First opened in 1893, it was renamed Patton State Hospital after Harry Patton in 1927. Patton opened in 1893, as a state run, public sector forensic hospital. , officials said. ``We are pleased the jury did what we considered the right thing on the sanity phase,'' Assistant Public Defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was Duane Dammeyer said. The defense contended that Virk was driven to insanity by her husband's abuse, and pushed her son and daughter into the water in 2000 before jumping in herself. The children were rescued by a man who heard the boy's cries. The same jury had found Virk guilty of attempted first-degree murder last week, but at the conclusion of the sanity phase of the trial Friday jurors found her not guilty by reason of insanity. |
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