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Norman Mailer's Stabbing of Adele Morales: Difference between revisions
Norman Mailer's Stabbing of Adele Morales (view source)
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Mailer was arrested at the hospital around 10 pm.{{cn}} Initially, Mailer pleaded “not guilty,” but later changed his plea to “guilty” to avoid harmful publicity for his family.{{sfn|Lennon|2013|p=269}} | Mailer was arrested at the hospital around 10 pm.{{cn}} Initially, Mailer pleaded “not guilty,” but later changed his plea to “guilty” to avoid harmful publicity for his family.{{sfn|Lennon|2013|p=269}} | ||
"He was charged with felonious assault and placed under psychiatric observation. Anxious above all, however, to protect her two young daughters, she declined to press charges. In the end Mailer pleaded guilty to third-degree assault and received only a suspended sentence. A year later, they divorced."{{sfn|Cornwell|2015|}}{{Long quote}} | "He was charged with felonious assault and placed under psychiatric observation. Anxious above all, however, to protect her two young daughters, she declined to press charges. In the end Mailer pleaded guilty to third-degree assault and received only a suspended sentence. A year later, they divorced."{{sfn|Cornwell|2015|}}{{Long quote}} | ||
Yet in an aftermath dominated by friends, family members, colleagues, and other enablers rallying to Norman, it became clear that he’d be “protected” and Adele, for all intent and purposes, was left to recover from her wounds and resume her life.{{cn}} Mailer briefly sat in jail, before being court-ordered to Bellevue for 17 days.{{cn}} In less than one month, he was back home. After plea bargaining was agreed to, Mailer’s reduced charges led to a suspended sentence and probation.{{sfn|Moore |2020}} | Yet in an aftermath dominated by friends, family members, colleagues, and other enablers rallying to Norman, it became clear that he’d be “protected” and Adele, for all intent and purposes, was left to recover from her wounds and resume her life. {{cn}} Mailer briefly sat in jail, before being court-ordered to Bellevue for 17 days.{{cn}} In less than one month, he was back home. After plea bargaining was agreed to, Mailer’s reduced charges led to a suspended sentence and probation.{{sfn|Moore |2020}} | ||
After the stabbing, Mailer was committed to Bellevue Mental Hospital.{{sfn|McNeil|2020|p=51}} "I was very upset because my feeling was I committed a crime." | After the stabbing, Mailer was committed to Bellevue Mental Hospital. {{sfn|McNeil|2020|p=51}} "I was very upset because my feeling was I committed a crime." Mailer said. {{sfn|McNeil|2020|p=51}} His criminal lawyer had suggested he go to the hospital. "He was thinking like a criminal lawyer" Mailer spoke.{{sfn|McNeil|2020|p=51}} They used the mental hospital as a way to save him had his wife did end up dying from the injuries inflicted upon her.{{sfn|McNeil|2020|p=51}} Mailer hated this, he felt he would go crazy if he'd be there any longer.{{sfn|McNeil|2020|p=51}} | ||
==Personal Response== | ==Personal Response== | ||