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incarcerated for less than life imprisonment, she could be

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helped through psychiatric and mental care which she is

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now receiving, and then return to society.

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Without that provision that woman would never

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have had that opportunity except to spend additional years,

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many years as an additional punishment instead of once,

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b eing corrected mentally, and returned to her place in

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society.

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DELEGATE JAMES: Delegate Sherbow.

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DELEGATE SHERBOW: Mr. Chairman and ladies and

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gentlemen of the committee. I had hoped I wouldn't have

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to speak on this particular subject, because it was so

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simple and plain, but some of the non-lawyer members of the

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convention have expressed to me the fact that they are

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still in doubt. We used these words, anachronistic,

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outmoded, let me tell you exactly what it means:

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There never was a better opportunity to have a

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verdict brought in that did not meet with the law than there

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is under this kind of an old, outdated rule.

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Here is what happens. If you are involved in

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a simple automobile accident case, personal injury or