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From inside prison
Author(s) -
Cox Julian
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
dyslexia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.694
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1099-0909
pISSN - 1076-9242
DOI - 10.1002/dys.189
Subject(s) - plea , appeal , jury , conviction , dyslexia , psychology , prison , judgement , spelling , acquittal , law , criminology , psychoanalysis , reading (process) , political science , philosophy , linguistics
Editorial note . Part One of this paper was written in 1994, when the author, Julian Cox, having partially recovered from the trauma of his conviction for murder, sought the help of Justice , an organization concerned with helping those whose convictions seemed unfair. The complete document is a very long one, and we have published only selected extracts. After long delays, Julian's case came to the Court of Appeal in January 2000. It was unsuccessful. Apparently, it is not possible in law to reverse a jury's decision on issues of fact. His plea had, therefore, to be one of ‘diminished responsibility’, which was argued partly on psychiatric grounds and partly on the grounds of dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). There was a brief mention of Julian's dyslexia in the Court of Appeal's judgement, but no understanding whatever of how it might have contributed to the original tragedy. Part Two of the paper was written specifically for Dyslexia at the editor's invitation. There has been no editing of the spelling or style . In the case of Part One, as Julian explains, the editing was done for him. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.