He’d have been better off trying to come up with a diminished capacity defense. There are plenty of mental health “experts” who will invent a new disorder for you.... for a price.
“He’d have been better off trying to come up with a diminished capacity defense. There are plenty of mental health “experts” who will invent a new disorder for you.... for a price.”
Based partly on an earlier post on another thread by flaglady47 (it reinforces an argument others have made), I don’t think they’d need to “invent a new disorder” for Brian: she makes a persuasive case that he suffers from a known one: paranoid schizophrenia:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3997596/posts
I believe that, like children, people suffering from mental health issues DO have “diminished capacity”. So they do need to be judged by a different standard - a LOWER standard.
In the case of children, this handicap is “cured” by them growing up, maturing. Similarly, in the case of some mental health patients, it can be “cured” by medication. The immediate priority is to protect the public, which might require incarceration. But once successfully medicated, they may even be able to lead a normal and productive life. (Additional treatment may be necessary, but this is just a brief response.)