MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT

“In any event, the impression I gained from Dr. Morgan's evidence was that she relied for her finding principally on features which Dr. Shubitz also found to be present: absence of remorse, lack of guilt, defect in feeling for others and an absence of anxiety*  Dr. Pascoe also found these features to be present but in the absence of any pattern of any irresponsible behaviour was not prepared to state that they proved that Lehnberg was a psychopath. I find Dr. Pascoe's evidence clear and con­vincing and I do not think that on balance another Court would hold that the applicant has discharged the onus of proving that she is a psychopath, more particularly when it is remembered that notone of the four psychiatrists who examined Lehnberg before the trial came forward to say that she was -( 14 -)  a psychopath.» The most that can be said is that she displays some psychopathic tendencies»”

MILAN KUNDERA Murder simply hastens a bit what God will eventually see to on His own. God, it may be assumed, took murder into account; . . . ─ The Unbearable Lightness of Being     But, he said to himself, whether they knew or didn’t know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn’t know. Is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?     Let us concede that a Czech public prosecutor in the early fifties who called for the death of an innocent man was deceived by the Russian secret police and the government of his own country. But now that we all know the accusations to have been absurd and the execution to have been innocent, how can that selfsame public prosecutor defend his purity of heart by beating himself on the chest and proclaiming, My conscience is clear! I didn’t know! I was a believer! Isn’t his “I didn’t know! I was a believer!” at the very root of his irreparable guil...