PROSECUTORS SEEK ANOTHER EXAM IN CARO SLAYING TRIAL.Byline: David Greenberg The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Staff Writer VENTURA - Prosecutors said Wednesday that they will seek an additional psychiatric examination of Socorro ``Cora'' Caro, who has pleaded 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. to charges that she fatally shot three of her sons last November. Although two court-appointed mental health experts are already on the case, Deputy District Attorney James Ellison James Ellison can refer to:
Santa Rosa, city (1991 pop. 80,629), capital of La Pampa prov., central Argentina. It is a modern city and road junction surrounded by a rich agricultural and cattle-raising area. Valley housewife to be examined again. He denied, however, that the motion, expected to be presented to the court Aug. 4, was a strategy for challenging Caro's insanity plea. Deputy 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 Jean Farley said she was reviewing the motion and would not discuss the case. Caro, who remains held without bail in county jail, could face the death penalty or life in prison if convicted of the charges; she could spend the rest of her life in a mental institution if found guilty by reason of insanity. Caro is accused of shooting her sons - Joseph, 11, Michael 8, and Christopher, 5, - on Nov. 22, while they slept in their bedrooms in the family's hilltop mansion. Her son, Gabriel, now 2, was not harmed. Authorities said Caro then shot herself in the head, causing what Farley said is partial paralysis on her left side. |
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