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JP Miller Faces a Federal Trial — And the Demon Defense Has NEVER Worked
In 1981, a 19-year-old named Arne Cheyenne Johnson stabbed his landlord to death in Connecticut and told the court a demon did it. Judge Robert Callahan threw the defense out before the jury heard a word of it, calling it “irrelative and unscientific.” Johnson was convicted of first-degree manslaughter. That set the template.
Michael Taylor killed his wife after an all-night exorcism in England — the court reclassified the claim as mental illness. David Berkowitz blamed demons for the Son of Sam killings and later admitted in prison he’d invented the story to confuse investigators. Sean…
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