ADC e legislação

[ADC: acidentes de comboio]

Nov 2, 2006 6:04 pm ET
By Jeanne King
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A schizophrenic man was sentenced on Thursday to 23 years in prison for pushing a young woman to her death in front of a New York subway train in a case that led to a state law allowing court-ordered treatment for the mentally ill.
Andrew Goldstein, 37, last month admitted in a signed statement that he pushed Kendra Ann Webdale, a 32-year-old aspiring screenwriter, into the path of an oncoming train at a Manhattan station in January 1999.
At the time Goldstein pushed Webdale, he had refused to take his anti-psychotic medication.

As a result of Goldstein's refusal to be medicated, a state law was passed in 1999 that permits patients such as Goldstein to be medicated by force.
The law is named "Kendra's Law" after Webdale and gives families the right to have court-ordered outpatient psychiatric treatment for relatives..