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Article: Seeking to explain, though not to justify.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2002
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Byline: Mitchell B. Pearlstein
One need not equate what Andrea Yates was convicted of in Texas in March with what Roland Amundson pleaded guilty to in Minneapolis last week in order to agree that each committed crimes not a whit short of crazy. How else to describe Yates drowning her five young children? How else to explain Amundson - an affluent and heretofore respected judge on Minnesota's second highest bench - stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a vulnerable adult he had sworn to protect?
"Crazy" may not be a clinically correct or respectful term of art, even when used only to describe a person's behavior, not his or her character. Yet is ...
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