I was wondering from a legal perspective, yes, Bella is a terrible person, and she should be punished for her crimes, but there's no indication that she made Chris do anything. I was just wondering if the defense might try to use half-truths and present them as real truths to get free Chris. From a legal perspective, will this work, it looks like morons with an agenda are intentionally trying to shift blame. I just don't know if this could skew a potential outcome in Chris' favor when a lot of it is not true.....at least the parts of about Bella's relationship with Chris.
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A good defender would try and use whatever to confuse the issues and take the widest latitude of “reasonable doubt”.
A good question is how Chris would react to it though. We know he’s extremely proud of being “high functioning” and I could easily see him resist and even try to sabotage attempts at being portrayed as a naive simpleton being played like a toy until he didn't know right from wrong.
Yes, 20 years back they caught the one guy literally responsible for most of it in the country and nobody really ever took his place. The Rainbow Family that used to follow the Dead around probably still has access to some but it's a rare thing to see at all. Most of the other stuff that could be used on paper practically (as in dealer quantities) is really inferior research chemicals like 5-MeO-DMT and the 2C-x series. These are popular for often being of questionable legality rather than "mandatory life sentence" legality.
Ah yes, the whole Kansas rocket silo case, right?
Damn, I’m glad I had a chance to experience the real thing back in the day.
Only once but that was enough, lol!
Interesting. I really appreciate being able to go over all of this from the perspective of someone more familiar with law than a layperson. I do think it would be better for Chris and the people around him if he were put into a facility that could be dedicated to watching him, but I was never entirely on the side of people who thought that prison would do him any good mentally.
I also absolutely never thought he would walk, but wasn't sure what the options were besides Prison and Loony Bin, knowing there's another option at all that involves Chris not being held while still being charged definitely gives a lot to think about in regards to the future of the Farm's Founding Cow.
I'm hoping that when it goes to court someone will be able to quietly attend and come back with more info, as I would be curious to see exactly how everything goes down, what's said, and exactly how both sides--but especially Chris' lawyer, attempt to talk about things. Assuming there's an 'interesting' trial at all and they do anything other than the proposed cut and dry pleading guilty in an effort to escape prison time.
I haven't read through this whole thread yet so I'll refrain from any questions for now. But thank you for taking the time to write all this up.
Hate to disappoint you, but I really don’t see Chris being put in a “special care” facility of any kind.
There are a lot of people out there, both in jail and not, who are far worse off than Chris mentally, who aren’t put in one.
It generally takes quite a bit more than being a lazy, entitled autist who shits his pants to be put in a special facility/group home.
And Chris would of course also fight tooth and nail to prevent any loss of independence, even if it was beneficial for him.
The thing with Chris is, that he’s not
unable to live a regular adult life, like some speds and mentally ill people are.
He just
chooses not to and so far has never been forced to.
Prison, and a possible loss of SSI might change that. Though fuck... Was it a ten year sentence that would take away his gibs permanently?
I’d hate to be a 50 year old Chris with zero job experience and zero income. He’ll probably bang on the gates of his prison to be let back in.