Schizophrenic Yale law professor won’t stand trial in fiancée’s slaying. This is indeed a very tragic one, but unfortunately discouraging relapses are not uncommon in dealing with major mental illness: He was once celebrated for succeeding as a Yale Law School graduate and faculty member despite his schizophrenia, but at some point he stopped taking his medication and began to deteriorate. His fiancee stayed home from work that day to try and help, but the prospect of a crisis intervention apparently drove him to murder her, thinking she was ‘”a nonhuman impostor” conspiring to

hospitalize him for torture, experimentation and death’, according to psychiatric reports. Even the prosecution’s psychiatric expert conceded the merits of his insanity plea. [Nando Times]