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I recall how as law
students, my friends and I always shared a joke about insanity being the best
defence to a criminal charge, especially as it related to crimes of passion like
when you catch another man on your wife. For instance, I read about a
father who committed murder because a drunk driver drove into his 2 sons
killing them instantly. According to the report, the man whose sons had been
pushing his car from behind after it broke down along the highway just alighted
from the car, saw the carnage, went home, got a gun and shot the drunk driver. The
Father was however let go on the legal grounds that he was mad temporarily
insane when he shot the driver.