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With jury selection to start today, Druce's lawyer, John LaChance, plans to use an insanity defense. He argued during pretrial hearings that Druce was suffering from a "major mental illness."<br> | With jury selection to start today, Druce's lawyer, John LaChance, plans to use an insanity defense. He argued during pretrial hearings that Druce was suffering from a "major mental illness."<br> | ||
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<i>source: Article < Suspect: I killed priest to 'save the children' > by Denise Lavoie; www.suntimes.com/ output/news/cst -nws-geo09.html; Chicago Sun-Times; 9 January 2006</i> | <i>source: Article < Suspect: I killed priest to 'save the children' > by Denise Lavoie; www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-geo09.html; Chicago Sun-Times; 9 January 2006</i> | ||
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The question for jurors won't be whether Joseph Druce killed convicted pedophile priest John Geoghan, who was beaten and strangled in his prison cell, but whether he should be held criminally responsible. Prison officials said they found Druce inside Geoghan's cell, with the door jammed shut so no one else could enter, and that Druce bragged openly about killing "the child molester" and told investigators he did it to "save the children."
With jury selection to start today, Druce's lawyer, John LaChance, plans to use an insanity defense. He argued during pretrial hearings that Druce was suffering from a "major mental illness."
source: Article < Suspect: I killed priest to 'save the children' > by Denise Lavoie; www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-geo09.html; Chicago Sun-Times; 9 January 2006