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    "id": 767308,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, mental problem is not equivalent to insanity which the judge was alluding to. Anybody who commits a crime has a mental problem. That mental problem may not be in the McNaughton rules an issue of insanity; it is a question that the person has a problem on how to solve issues. This is when a person thinks that crime or stealing people’s things is the only way to enrich one self. Having said that, the proper answer to the question asked by Sen. Cherargei is that, if insanity will be pleaded as a ground of committing any crime, the court will order for a mental examination before the person stands trial. Sen. Cherargei can help his constituents if he thinks that they are not in the right state of mind by, one, as a Senator, insisting that they must be given a lawyer or a state counsel. If they are standing trial for murder they cannot represent themselves. He must insist that they must be given a State Counsel to represent them. In the alternative, because Sen. Cherargei is generally a man of means, he can hire a lawyer for his constituents so that those issues can be pleaded in court."
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