- Two workers and a customer in a vintage clothes shop are brutally murdered with a bayonet. The fourth,surviving,victim identifies the killer as John Smith,an educated but homeless ex-military man,who is arrested with the weapon on him. It is found out that he was previously charged with stalking a young woman but sloppy prosecution led to the case's collapse. He is also a law graduate and defends himself,despite a history of mental instability vouched for by his sister,Patricia. In court he claims that he was not himself that day and therefore not the killer. Steel brings in Patricia and uses Smith's paranoia to get his conviction.—don @ minifie-1
- The police investigate the murder of three people in a dress shop who were found by an employee on returning from lunch. The medical evidence indicates that they were killed with a sword. The investigation soon focuses on a street person who was seen nearby who is eventually identified by John Smith, a schizophrenic who hasn't taken his medication for several months. At trial, Smith is allowed to present his own defense - he has several law degrees - and proves to be a formidable opponent. Smith has a long history of mental illness and occasional violent behavior but as long as he remains on his medication, there's a high degree of normalcy about him. James Steele would like to get him to plead guilty to manslaughter as a finding of insanity will likely see him back on the street in short order.—garykmcd
- Devlin and Brooks investigate the murder of three people, Two workers and a customer, in a vintage clothes shop, who were found by an employee on returning from lunch, apparently killed with a sword or long knife. The medical evidence later indicates that the wepon was a bayonet. There is a fourth, surviving, victim who helps the police in there investigation and the police soon focus there search on a street person who was seen nearby who is eventually identified as John "Zero" Smith an educated but homeless ex-military man, who is arrested with the weapon on him. Smith who hasn't taken his medication for several months was previously charged with stalking a young woman but sloppy prosecution led to the case's collapse. It is also reavealed that Smith is a law graduate, who has several law degrees. Smith has a long history of mental illness and occasional violent behavior but as long as he remains on his medication, there's a high degree of normalcy about him and his medication decides he will defend himself at his trial. He proves to be a formidable opponent againts Steele, and trying to avoid both hospitalization and jail, argues that he is not a danger to society so long as he is medicated and claims that he was not himself that day and therefore not the killer, while Steel attempts to prove that Smith is likely to stop taking his medications yet again. Steel brings in Smiths sister, Patricia and uses Smith's paranoia to get his conviction.
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