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Originally Posted by Nightsong
The bill would create a new law. One that says you can only plead GUILTY by reason of insanity. The mandatory sentence would include a hospital stay and once "sane" a term of jail keeping with the crime. Mind you this is only for viiolent offenders.
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Why would anyone make that plea? The choice seems to be between asylum+jail and just jail. It sounds like a recipe for putting even more schizophrenics into the general prison population.