What Are the Ways in Which a Prosecutor Might Try

question 39

Essay

What are the ways in which a prosecutor might try to get a patient on the stand to seem as though they are perfectly "normal"? How does the patient's attorney combat some of these techniques if they are using the insanity defense? Be sure to use specific terminology associated with medicine as a social institution and then apply them to a hypothetical case.

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