Strange Defense
In 1993, Colin Ferguson pulled out a gun in the middle of the Long Island Rail Road in New York, and fired into a crowd of dozens. He killed six and injured 19 before 3 guys Kevin Blum, Mark McEntee, and Mike O’Connor, put a stop to the terror. As newsworthy as that was, Ferguson’s trial would use a strange defense.
Ferguson’s attorneys devised the “Black Rage Defense” in an attempt to get their client off by reason of temporary insanity claiming that he was driven insane by racial prejudice. But nobody would know if it worked because Ferguson fired his whole legal team and represented himself before a verdict could be found. In the trial, he would question his own victims and arresting officers, make claims that he was receiving messages from God, and got a witness who backed up his claim that the government implanted a computer chip in his brain to control him. Thankfully none of this worked and he was sentenced to 315 years in prison for such a horrible crime.
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Ferguson’s attorneys devised the “Black Rage Defense” in an attempt to get their client off by reason of temporary insanity claiming that he was driven insane by racial prejudice. But nobody would know if it worked because Ferguson fired his whole legal team and represented himself before a verdict could be found. In the trial, he would question his own victims and arresting officers, make claims that he was receiving messages from God, and got a witness who backed up his claim that the government implanted a computer chip in his brain to control him. Thankfully none of this worked and he was sentenced to 315 years in prison for such a horrible crime.
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