Posted on 03/06/2025 12:10:07 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Bryan Kohberger has autism, according to his lead defense lawyer, who is arguing the diagnosis means he should not face the possibility of the death penalty if he is convicted of the murders of a group of University of Idaho students who were killed in a 4 a.m. home invasion attack in November 2022.
“Bryan C. Kohberger, by and through his attorneys of record… hereby moves this Court to strike the death penalty as a sentencing option in his case because Mr. Kohberger’s autism spectrum disorder (ASD) reduces his culpability, negates the retributive and deterrent purposes of capital punishment, and exposes him to the unacceptable risk that he will be wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death,” Anne Taylor wrote in a newly unsealed, 28-page court filing.
She argued that repetitive behaviors such as rocking in place or Kohberger’s failure to make eye contact would be perceived by jurors as “strange, out-of-control, and even disrespectful of such a solemn proceeding” or interpreted as guilt or shame. She said her client had been examined by Dr. Rachel Orr, who found that Kohberger’s autism has a “significant impact on his daily life.”
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Of course he would say that if Kohberger had had a bad case of sunburn as a child.
in a fair Universe, the judge could rule:
the murderer’s lawyers will now be jailed and face
the same penalty.
When does this monster’s trial start ?
The legal kitchen sink.
Like RUSH would say, he didn’t get enough Peanut Butter as a kid. It’s not his fault.
Execution cures it...................
Next they’ll be telling us he’s got a bad case of toe fungus.
Ping
Currently scheduled for Monday, 11 August 2025.
I know some people with autism, and one I love dearly. They are as morally responsible as anyone.
I don’t know why there is a rash of autistic killers lately. I can only think that they are far more susceptible to obsession - but what is it that triggers the obsession?
toeing the line means something entirely different when there’s a fungus among us.
Murder is murder. It doesn’t matter what the excuse is.
First, the lawyer wanted all the evidence barred, which is certainly helpful for the defence, now he has autism and somehow that will save his life.
Evil men in prison usually have a keener since of justice than the court system and lawyers have, so he probably won’t last very long in prison.
By some definitions or symptoms almost everyone is autistic.
Some people feel sorry for him, the 3 girls he liked to stalk are no longer alive.
I now realize that everyone of us could be diagnosed with some kind of mental, emotional or social “condition”.
Reviewing my life, I would probably have been labeled as someone with Asperger’s syndrome, a chronic daydreamer, who often mis reads the social cues of others, or who at times just does not care what others think. I still must know and obey the basic laws of civilized society. I don’t get a free pass from knowingly committing crimes. All of us are “defective” in our own ways. To me, that makes life more interesting. We are not Clones.
Which makes any trial for this SOB a sham and a waste of law-abiding taxpayers' dollars.
We need frontier justice in this country.
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