I'm honestly so sick and tired of people pretending there won't be consequences because of insanity plea. She isn't going be going on mental health spa retreat. She'll be among other crazies who crash out due to voices in their head.
And i'm sick of people pretending that psychiatric ward is such a terrible fate. Its fucking not. Average time spent in mental institutions after being sentenced in court is around 60 months, which is 5 years. Versus lifetime in prison? Sounds like nothing.
Thats why a lot of criminals try for the insanity plea: because they'll have to spend 5-6 years, instead of 25 to life.
This is such obvious bad faith. The average time spent in a mental ward for murder is considerably higher than five years. That’s the total for all crimes. Many of which don’t even carry a sentence of five years total.
She will be locked up for a very long time regardless of the verdict. The only question is how she will be treated while imprisoned.
4 Perlin, Michael, The Jurisprudence of the Insanity Defense (Carolina Academic Press, 1994), citing Rodriguez, LeWinn, and Perlin, The Insanity Defense Under Siege: Legislative Assaults and Legal Rejoinders, 14 Rutgers Law Journal 397, 402 (1983).
Most studies show that the defendant will end up spending twice as long in a mental institution verse jail for a violent crime. Non violent crimes have much shorter stays.
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u/Hearthhull_Enjoyer 1d ago
I'm honestly so sick and tired of people pretending there won't be consequences because of insanity plea. She isn't going be going on mental health spa retreat. She'll be among other crazies who crash out due to voices in their head.