Legal issue in Jeffrey Dahmer murder case?

Answer 1

Jeffrey Dahmer's trial was anticlimatic. There was literally truckloads of physical evidence and Dahmer's confessions. His trial was for the most part a formality. He was sentenced to multiple 'life with no parole' for multiple murders, but it saved him from lethal injection, which in hindsight would have been a waste of taxpayer's money since Dahmer was beaten to death by another inmate.

Hear are some YouTube videos of the court room http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14fFJOz2ioM

actually, he died 3 years later on nov 28 1994

Jeffrey Dahmer was not at risk for lethal injection or any other form of capitol punishment as Wisconsin did not have the death penalty.

The trial itself served as much more than just a mere 'formality'. The purpose for the trial was to determine weather or not Jeff Dahmer fit the criteria of legally insane as set forth by the state of Wisconsin. The burden of proof sits with the defense in such a case. The result of the trial however did not find him to be legally insane by the states definition. He was subsequently sentenced to 975 in prison of which he served only 3 before being murdered by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver.

Answer 2

Jeffery Dahmer was mentally disintergrating. In June of 1988, he was struggling with his own homosexual desires, mixed with his need to act out his sadistic fantasies. In August 1982, he was arrested after exposing himself at a state fair. In September 1986, he was arrested and charged with public exposure after masturbating in public. He served 10 months in jail, but was arrested soon after his release after sexually fondling a 13-year-old boy in Milwaukee. He was given five-years probation after convincing the judge that he needed therapy.

In September 1987, while on probation on the molestation charges, Dahmer met 26-year-old Steven Toumi and the two spent the night drinking heavily and cruising gay bars, then went to a hotel room. When Dahmer awoke from his drunken stupor he found Toumi dead.

Dahmer put Toumi's body into a suitcase which he took to his grandmother's basement. There he discarded the body in the garbage after dismembering it, but not before gratifying his sexual necrophilia desires.

Dahmer's killing spree continued and for most of his victims the scene was the same. He would meet them at a gay bar or mall and entice them with free alcohol and money if they agreed to pose for photographs. Once alone, he would drug them, sometimes torture them and then kill them usually by strangulation. He would then masturbate over the corpse or have sex with the corpse, cut the body up and get rid of the remains. He also kept parts of the bodies including the skulls, which he would clean much like he did with his childhood road kill collection and often refrigerated organs which he would on occasion eat.

Answer 3

Jeffrey Dahmer convicted himself. He was found to have dozens of bodies, body parts, acid to destroy the bodies and to top it off, he confessed. I would not have liked to have been his attorney. The best deal Dahmer could get was a plea bargin, which is what he did. He confessed to more than a dozen murders of boys and young men, and the state of Wisconsin would spare his life.

The whole point became moot when Dahmer was murdered himself by another inmate.

Answer 4

On July 22, 1991 Dahmer was arrested after victim Tracy Edwards, age 32, escaped from Dahmer's apartment. He told police a story of being drugged and almost murdered. He led officers back to Dahmer's apartment where they found numerous body parts in various stages of decomposition, heads in the refrigerator and nicnacs made of human skulls and other bones. A real-live Horror house. After his arrest Dahmer confessed to his crimes and was spared a lenthy trial since he cooperated with athorities.

What some people consider real justice, Dahmer was beaten to death by a fellow prisoner named Christopher Scarver, who claimed voices in his head told him to do it. Seems to be a lot of that going around.

Answer 5

Jeffrey Dahmer went to two courts,one was at the safety building in portage Wisconsin and one was in Ohio where he killed his first victim, Steven Hicks.

Answer 6

Jeffrey Dahmer was charged with 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 15 life sentencings equalling 957 years. Dahmers sentence was cut short when he was beat to death by a fellow inmate.

Answer 7

He was caught when a victim escaped his home and told the police about the incident.