[Opinionated Blowhard]

Here we go with the build up to the insanity defense. Childlike, not competent, doesn’t understand what he did.

[Steely Tom]

Here we go with the build up to the insanity defense. Childlike, not competent, doesn’t understand what he did.

I just blacked out, don't remember anything.

[Blurb2350]

Hey — give the poor guy a break! He’s an orphan for heaven’s sake.

[Sarah Barracuda]

and the defense attorneys are gonna blame his doctors for changing his meds a month prior..Nick told his doc that he couldnt deal with the side effects(weight gain) so they changed his meds even though his previous meds were working good on him

[Mr Radical]

“Here we go with the build up to the insanity defense.”
Genuine insanity can’t be cured.
In some jurisdictions it is not a soft option but automatic life detention with no chance of ever being released.

[Reddy]

His brain is probably fried from the drugs……

[bigbob]

Next he’ll be taking the second generation meathead defense

[Rockingham]

The insanity defense is extremely rare in practice because the legal standard is tough to meet and juries hate it. The alternative in criminal defense is to argue diminished capacity and a lack of premeditation in the hope of lessening the charges and for leniency in sentencing.

Nick Reiner is currently charged with two counts of first-degree murder with a special circumstance of multiple murders. Conviction means 25 years to life, without parole if special circumstances are found, which seems certain under such a charge is pursued and sustained.

However, the State of California punishes voluntary manslaughter with anywhere from 3 to 11 years in prison. A clear path to such an outcome for Reiner is to prove mental illness as a basis for diminished capacity and lack of full premeditation.

That is probably where the case is headed. Despite the extreme violence of the crime and the celebrity of the victims, this is basically a case of killings by a mentally ill meth head known for bitter arguments with his parent victims.

That being so, the crime under California law is voluntary manslaughter, not first degree murder. That makes for a limited prison term.

[Bullish]

...doesn’t understand what he did.

That won't fly because he tried to cover up his crime by running off to a hotel and getting rid of the clothes he wore and cleaning up in the shower. He knew what he did was wrong and the crime of double murder.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Here we go with the build up to the insanity defense. Childlike, not competent, doesn’t understand what he did.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
Hang him.