OF MURDER AND MADNESS. A True Story of Insanity and the law

Hardback. The remarkable story of a little-known Mexican-American from a remote Wyoming town who one day killed his white wife in a room full of witnesses - and it is attorney Gerry Spence's own story as well, as he pleads his client, Joe Esquibel, "not guilty by reason of insanity." Later, after the John Hinckley verdict, America was rocked by protest that in the USA a would-be killer should escape by claiming insanity. Who is really insane? What is insanity, and what are its roots?Whom can we trust to detect it? And, just possibly, might we all be smitten with the disease in this insane world? The author, in search of these answers, takes us with him into the drama of the insanity trial of Esquibel. This is the compelling story of 2 Wyoming boys who grew up on opposite sides of the social and moral tracks; one to become a killer and the other the killer's lawyer. 463pp. lge. 8vo. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Vg+ in vg. dw. which has a faded sp.