By way of example, and I don't care to dialog with you, so take this as a rhetorical question, do you think Dorner was crazy to the extent it would justify avoiding prison, that is, using an insanity defense?
I don’t think he’d have even received a trial.
His behavior and actions are not those of a sane person.
The courts would appoint one or two psychologists to check him out, one would give one report, the other the exact opposite.
That’s a given.
And the left would have been standing there cheering him on like Mumia Abu Jamal.
A total media circus in other words.
That tell you anything about what the run up to his trial would be like?
Whether he was psychotic or not would be brushed aside, ignored, buried.
He’d be rebranded a hero by the press, and we’d never know the full depth of what was in his head.
As for people trying to say he wasn’t a kook, they didn’t pay attention to what he said himself or his actions.
And considering how he went after a mans daughter and then taunted him, obsessed over perceived sleights from gradeschool, saw bigotry under every rock and behind every tree no matter what, yeah he likely was criminally insane.
Of course, they’d ask him if he understood the difference betwen right and wrong.
His answer to that questioning would be the decider in whether he received his trial.