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GEOKARJO 
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Posted on: Jan. 14 2009,10:38 am |
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I almost felt his pain until I got to the end of this story.
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PTSD Tied to Successful Insanity Defense
January 14, 2009
San Jose Mercury News
SAN JOSE, Calif. - In a landmark case for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, a Santa Clara County jury Tuesday found a former Army captain diagnosed with PTSD not guilty by reason of insanity for robbing a Mountain View, Calif., pharmacy of drugs at gunpoint.
Sargent Binkley, 34, faced a maximum of 22 years and eight months and a minimum of 12 years in state prison after the same jury convicted him last week of the 2006 robbery. He initially spent about two years in county jail awaiting trial and has been in a residential drug treatment program ever since.
The jury's verdict in the sanity phase of the trial Tuesday means Binkley could be treated for the disorder in a state hospital or as an outpatient. He was taken into custody Tuesday to be evaluated.
Learn more at Military.com's PTSD Center.
"What this case means is that the jury stood behind a Soldier," said Charles J. Smith, one of his attorneys. "We strongly believe that Soldiers should get preferential treatment if they come back with problems after their service to our country."
Binkley and his father, Edward, burst into tears when the verdict was announced.
"There was no reason this case should have ever gone to trial," Edward Binkley said, adding that his son turned himself in after committing a second robbery in San Carlos, Calif.
The prosecutor who tried the case, Deborah Medved, and a spokeswoman for the DA's office could not immediately be reached for comment.
Binkley graduated from West Point and served in Bosnia and Honduras before he received a general discharge in 2003. His defense attorneys argued that he became traumatized by two events - guarding a mass grave in Bosnia and shooting a teenager in a Honduran drug raid.
His father said he became addicted to morphine-based painkillers after dislocating his hip while running away from an alcohol-fueled fight in Honduras over a woman.
© Copyright 2009 San Jose Mercury News
If this guy had ever been in battle he might of took out a High School.
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minnow
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Posted on: Jan. 14 2009,10:46 am |
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It was OK to kill the teenager as long as it's a drug raid?
And what are our soldiers doing conducting drug raids in foreign countries. They can't even do that here.
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GEOKARJO
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Posted on: Jan. 14 2009,10:48 am |
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It said he shot him not killed him. The teenager could had been armed with IED or rocket launcher If he was a threat he deserved to be shot.
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minnow
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Posted on: Jan. 14 2009,10:50 am |
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Why does the last part lead you to change your feelings about his case?
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hymiebravo
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Posted on: Jan. 14 2009,12:42 pm |
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I had my own palovian response reading that. When I saw Honduras mentioned.
I started thinking about bananas at Kwik Trip.
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Alfy Packer
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Posted on: Jan. 16 2009,6:34 pm |
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Minnow has Post Drug Stress Disorder. PDSD for short. People who suffer from it have the need to garden excessively.
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minnow
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Posted on: Jan. 16 2009,7:22 pm |
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Oh, yer real funny. Now you're a comedienne. 
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