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PTSD Voir Dire Questions:
(Criminal and Injury)
-
 Know
anyone who’s a member of the Armed Forces?
Who’s served in combat?
- Know anyone who’s suffered from Post
Traumatic Stress?
- Can you conceive of a situation when a
person accused of a crime can assert
a mental health defense? When is it
appropriate?
a) Can you conceive of a situation when an injured person has suffered
PTSD
- Is the use of a mental defense an
excuse, trick, or technicality to get off?
- If you find his mind in a diseased
state:
a) Will you presume him innocent?
b) Vote not guilty; or is disease no excuse?
c)Damages for PTSD?
- If his mind flickers in and out like a
radio station in your car – crossing the
desert – would you consider this evidence
his brain is broken?
- Will you accept the responsibility of
enforcing the law relating to;
a) Intent?
b) Insanity?
- Is the use of insanity too light or
should we reject it in order to punish him?
- How comfortable are you with the
presumption of innocence?
- How should we deal with the mentally
ill?
- Can you vote not guilty by reason of
insanity?
- What is more important.....public safety
or the defendant's presumption of innocence
if you find he has a mental disease?
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