Today at Alek Minassian's trial for the Toronto van attack we'll be hearing from Dr. John Bradford, a renowned forensic psychiatrist. You can follow along here:
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Here is some background on Dr. John Bradford. ottawacitizen.com/health/Tough+f…
Well, well, well. Looks like we are adjourning to Thursday. The Crown and defence doctors need time to review the video interview Minassian did with Dr. Westphal, another defence psychiatrist.
That's it for the day, we will hear from Dr. Bradford on Thursday.
We did just get the full written reasons from Justice Molloy in this WILD hearing in which she was forced to pre-emptively ban a video interview of Minassian from publication.
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Aside from the actual issue of the sealing order, she makes a couple of comments worth noting given the concerns raised by autism advocates and what we've learned during the trial about Minassian's stated desire for noteriety.
She stressed that people should know that the not criminally responsible defence is highly individualistic and no one should be making generalizations or assumptions about autism from it.
"People diagnosed with ASD are not on trial here; Alek Minassian is on trial here."
"People diagnosed with ASD are not on trial here; Alek Minassian is on trial here."
Re noteriety:
"I, for one, would welcome a consensus amongst responsible journalists to refuse to publish the names or images of individuals seeking fame by inflicting carnage upon innocent people. But that does not mean that court proceedings should be conducted in private."
"I, for one, would welcome a consensus amongst responsible journalists to refuse to publish the names or images of individuals seeking fame by inflicting carnage upon innocent people. But that does not mean that court proceedings should be conducted in private."
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