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keep us up to date. it will be interesting to watch
as the court case unfurls.

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"I think the system is designed to provide treatment that patients need and, at the same time, ensure that patients are compliant," Nigh said.

Not always, Jeanne Been pointed out. She's the mother of Robert W. Jenkins, a postal carrier who authorities said was randomly gunned down by Jason Weed in December 2001 at a Tulsa apartment complex.

Weed was tried in Tulsa federal court and found not guilty by reason of insanity.

He was sent to a mental-health center in North Carolina but was released last year when his treatment team and a judge agreed that he was no danger to himself or others.

"I understand exactly how they feel," Been said of victims in the Fears case.

She has followed the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ruling and found the split decision "strange," she said.

She supports her son's widow, Amber Lynn Jenkins, in efforts to get the law changed to provide for a verdict of "guilty by reason of insanity." With that statute, a defendant would receive mental-health treatment until he or she was deemed to be safe, and then be sent to prison for the duration of the sentence.

"If they've committed a crime, we need to have the problem taken care of," Been said. "But they need to take responsibility."

Weed is free to go on with his life, she noted. Anyone who sees that as justice probably has not grieved over a violent crime against a loved one, in her view.

"Those same people don't want Jason Weed or Daniel Fears living in their neighborhood," Been said. "They didn't lose a son or husband or father or they wouldn't be saying those things."

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And from the Tulsa World, I have a report on a pending lawsuit claiming that "Jason Weed was driven insane by his treatment during a motivational seminar. Attorneys for Jason Weed and the family of the Tulsa postman he killed agree on one thing -- that a motivational seminar he attended days before the shooting drove him insane." Landmark was added as a defendant in December. The article also mentions other killings by people in Minnesota following Landmark "education."

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Tulsa killer Jason Weed, who gunned down postal carrier Robert Jenkins four years ago, will get out of prison by the weekend. That's outraged his victim's family. KOTV Report

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Tulsa - An insanity defense put a killer back on the streets. Now, his victim's widow is working to change the system by changing the law. NewsChannel 8's Jerry Giordano has a look at her struggle.

Amber Jenkins still finds it difficult to cope.

"It's been really hard on our family."

Her husband, Robert, a Tulsa mail carrier, was randomly gunned down, shot and killed while making deliveries.

"I don't think any of us have recovered from this yet."