Comment on Anon is a Witcher

• Noklito@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s a weird situation, most insanity pleas are fought with the defense having to prove they were mentally unwell and incapable of being willingly responsible for their actions but because of the lead up to the crime, it’s being handled in reverse.

  She killed those kids but doesn’t want to go to jail and pleads not guilty by insanity so she wants to be institutionalized. The plaintiff argues she wasn’t insane and was in control of her actions due to how functional she was till the last minute before the crime would have been possible as she orchestrated the conditions to allow her to commit the murders. It’s an interesting case that’s getting muddled by the publics personnel beliefs and is also being co-opted for political purposes by right-wingers as proof the 19th amendment was a mistake.

  It’s insane to see how we even got to this point but it’s being compared to the OJ murders for a reason.

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    it’s also a proxy for class/gender war. she’s a rich white woman, do you think if she was any other demographic she’d be able to get away with this, let alone have other white women fan girling super hard for her?

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    • Noklito@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Unrelated, your name made me chuckle, thanks for the smile.

      To the point, I’ve noticed that too, it’s so overwhelmingly obvious that none of the support she’s getting is authentic, it’s clear people are using this for their or culture war nonsense and it’s concerning as the precedent this case could set can have some serious consequences.

      It feels like a lot of people aren’t taking this seriously, the arguments/discussions people are trying to make around this can snowball into something disastrous.

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      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        My wife started getting into it from Instagram crap and was talking about how it’s possible if not likely the husband actually did it.

        I took 5 minutes to find she’s not even saying she didn’t do it and that still doesn’t matter to her.

        I do not fucking get it, and was accused of being misogynistic for not thinking it was possible the husband did it.

        I can’t even with social media

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• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s not dumb it’s real.

  I dated a lawyer who believed in astrology and folk magic. A lot of people believe in this shit.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Dude, reality is dumb as hell.

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• Schmuppes@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sure, if you can make the case that you were not in your right mind when you committed a crime and therefore unable to grasp what you were doing (Schuldunfähigkeit in German), you cannot be punished. If the court also finds that you were only temporarily in a condition that made you commit the crime but will most likely not do anything like it again and are not a danger to others? You may neither go to prison nor to a mental institution.

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  • Noklito@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s a very interesting way of handling the situation. Honestly think that a more appropriate way of handling/framing the case.

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