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The story also has the most details from the trial evidence, such as running quotes from Markhasev's jailhouse letters to another inmate, in which he says that he went to kill a drug dealer who wasn't home and then came upon Ennis Cosby fixing a flat tire, and details about how the informant who turned Markhasev in to get a $100,000 National Enquirer reward testified that the defendant told him he'd killed Cosby.
Proving plagiarism in the United States requires the plaintiff to show that 1) the defendant had access to the earlier work and 2) the defendant's work bears a "substantial similarity" to the plaintiff's original.
Could scans showing diminished impulse control—a function controlled by several regions of the brain, including the striatum and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex—be used to support more lenient sentencing, or even acquit a defendant, because he couldn't control his violent impulses?
In most states, a successful entrapment defense requires the defendant to prove three things:
Or alternatively, will those same scans be used to argue for harsher sentences, since the defendant is clearly “hardwired” to commit similar crimes again?