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Continued Prom Page A1five defense psychiatrists who said Allaway is a paranoid schizophrenic who did not know what was happening during the killing spree.He called the psychiatric testimony •■gobbledygook” and urged jurors to look at Allaway’s actions and statements during the shootings.Enright reminded the jurors that AUaway purchased the rifle used in the massacre just two days before the★ * ★134-Year-Old Insanity Rule{Continued From Page Altseven murders he committed at Cal State Fullerton on July 12, 1976.The jury is using a somewhat more sophisticated test than the beast test, but still it's one that's been around for more than a century.The jury in the AUaway case has been instructed to use the ••M'N'agh-ten Rule'1 in determining Allaway's mental state during the shooting spree.The M’Naghten Rule dates back to 1843 when man named Daniel MjNaghten fantasized that England’s prime minister. Sir Robert Peel, was out to do him harm. Taking his delusions of persecution at the hand of the kingdom's chief politician to heart. M'Naghten went to the Downing Street residence of the prime minister and waUed for Peel to leave the home.The person who walked out of the front door that day. however, was Sir Thomas Drummond. Peel's secretary-M'Naghten killed him with a single shot.At his trial. M’Naghten claimed he was insane and subsequently was found not guilty by reason of insanity.That verdict didn’t sit well with England’s nobility - particularly Queen ‘Victoria, who established a committee to draft a standard test to be used in the future to determine the question of sanity in criminal matters.The test adopted then — in 1843 — still is the main test used today to determine whether a convicted criminal is responsible for his acts.rfll- - nKjriKt _ — ,, A t r\killings and asked the salesman if the gun had a propensity to jam.Testimony earlier in the trial also showed that Allaway fired 23 shots from the .22 caliber rifle, stopping a! least once to reload the weapon.The prosecutor stressed during his argument Wednesday that Allaway had stalked one of the victims. 25-year-old Deborah Paulsen, down a long corridor, then slaughtered her when she reached a locked door.‘i submit to you that each step Allaway took down that long hallway stalking Debbie was a step toward legal sanity...and responsibility for his actions?’ Enright told the jury.He said Allaway walked upstairs to the ground floor of the library and told another murder victim, Stephen Becker, 32. that he had just shot some people. Enright said that statement by AUaway is strong evidence that the defendant knew what he was doing, and knew it was wrong.Becker was shot during a struggle’ with AUaway, evidence introduced earlier revealed.The prosecutor also stressed the importance of a phone call by AUaway to Anaheim police indicating he wanted to surrender.In that phone call, which was tape recorded and played back for the jury, Allaway said he had committed aterrible act down at Cal State Fullerton, and wanted to surrender.Enright said that statement was proof that Allaway knew what he had done was wrong.Butler, in his final argument, said Enright had taken the simplistic approach to insanity. The public defender said the shootings were bizarre and weird.“Where is the motive For these shootings, other than insane delusions?” Butler asked the jury.“There is no evidence that he was angry at anyone, except for the blacks,” Butler said, But he kills white people, for no apparent reason.”(In earlier testimony it was brought out that Alla way harbored a hatred of blacks and believed his first wife had been forced to perform in pornographic movies with blacks. None of the shooting victims at Cal State however, were black.)
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Thu, Sep 01, 1977
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