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This is tragic -- I bet this kid could make great contributions with some support. > The court heard that Kurtaj had been violent while in custody with dozens
by juujian 3y ago
This is tragic -- I bet this kid could make great contributions with some support.
> The court heard that Kurtaj had been violent while in custody with dozens of reports of injury or property damage.
> Doctors deemed Kurtaj unfit to stand trial due to his acute autism so the jury was asked to determine whether or not he committed the alleged acts - not if he did so with criminal intent.
- woleium 3y agoHopefully he will get the right sort of help.
- londons_explore 3y agoOr.... He is a good actor and has decided that being locked in a mental hospital is better than prison
- alasdair_ 3y agoFor life? Probably not.
- number6 3y agoYou could try to get healed; but he should have read: One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
- ChainOfFools 3y agoFor sure. Sentencing guidelines and legal tests for criminality are usually very clearly drawn, even if the logic that brought them to conclusion may be flawed. You'll know when you're in and when you're out of their graces independently of any particular referees opinion, once the big decisions over your fate have been made they tend to be strongly deterministic. The guidelines for mental health and danger to oneself in that context are literally the subjective opinion of a handful of appointed decision- makers who may not all be working from strictly clinical diagnostic criteria (or even training) , but who all do have every motivation to err on the side of caution at your expense, and to do so indefinitely.