Title A crime of insanity / produced by David Murdock, Miri Navasky, and Karen O'Connor ; written by David Murdock and Miri Navasky ; a Frontline coproduction with Camera One Productions, L. L. C.

Publication Info.	[Alexandria, VA] : PBS Video, ; Boston, Mass : WGBH Educational Foundation, [2002]
	©2002

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Video	KF224.T67 C75 2002	Available	Ask at Circulation Desk

Description	1 DVD (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	digital
	optical
	video file
	DVD video
System Details	DVD.
Note	Documentary.
Event	Originally broadcast on as an episode of Frontline, PBS, Oct. 17, 2002.
Summary	In 1994 a paranoid schizophrenic man, Ralph Tortorici, took a class of college students hostage, threatening and wounding one of them. Using excerpts from the actual trial, as well as interviews with Tortorici's father and brother, the defense attorney, chief assistant district attorney, the prosecutor, psychiatric experts, and the presiding judge, this documentary examines the ethical dilemmas surrounding the insanity defense.
Subject	Tortorici, Ralph, 1968-1999.
	Trials (Kidnapping) -- New York (State)
	Trials (Kidnapping)
	New York (State)
	Trials (Assault and battery) -- New York (State)
	Trials (Assault and battery)
	Trials (Attempted murder) -- New York (State)
	Trials (Attempted murder)
	Insanity (Law) -- United States.
	Insanity (Law)
	United States.
Genre/Form	Video recordings.
	Video recordings.
Added Author	Murdock, David.
	Navasky, Miri.
	O'Connor, Karen.
	WGBH Educational Foundation.
	PBS Video.
Added Title	Frontline (Television program)