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Post by confuzzled dude Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:52 pm

On Thursday, two psychologists who evaluated Bashir provided the chilling backdrop for those encounters, saying the cabdriver told them that a voice in his head had sent him to the design shop on a mission of terror. They said Bashir believed that his brain was being reprogrammed and that he needed to commit robbery and rape and to shoot a police officer to help him move toward some sort of higher state of being.

Porter did not dispute that Bashir suffered from mental illness, but he argued that the defendant “shaded” what he said to psychological evaluators to “conform with the insanity defense.” He noted that Bashir bought the gun he used to shoot Laboy the day before and that the gun shop’s employees saw nothing unusual in his demeanor.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/cab-driver-found-not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity-in-alexandria-police-officer-shooting/2014/10/02/6790e052-48e2-11e4-b72e-d60a9229cc10_story.html?hpid=z3

-> Would existing laws prevent him from buying another gun down the road?

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