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Best_man23

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3. If he thinks an insanity defense would help him

Reply to cilla4progress (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 13, 2022, 12:28 PM

Jun 2022

He's getting bad advice, because conditions in many hospitals used to house the criminally insane are worse than an actual prison.

His better option would be to face the music and hope his trial is assigned to one of his sympathetic "judges".

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I think TFG might have to plead insanity to get out of this. n/t [View all] Raven Jun 2022 OP

What cilla4progress Jun 2022 #1

If he thinks an insanity defense would help him Best_man23 Jun 2022 #3

The insanity defense rarely works. Ocelot II Jun 2022 #2

I agree with this assessment. Irish_Dem Jun 2022 #4

Even if he could, he won't relayerbob Jun 2022 #5

When the end of the road comes nearer I can see him asserting an insanity defense and in2herbs Jun 2022 #6

None of it will play out like that relayerbob Jun 2022 #10

That would, thankfully, never work Takket Jun 2022 #7

Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a mental condition. maxsolomon Jun 2022 #8

I think he knows cognitively what's wrong, but believes he's above the law. lindysalsagal Jun 2022 #12

That's what I have been thinking CrackityJones75 Jun 2022 #9

He'd probably still get 70 million votes, the morons. lindysalsagal Jun 2022 #11

OK - he's insane. I can accept that ... FakeNoose Jun 2022 #13