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1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 07:41:05 EST Annah
   With "they're a head case" being used as a universal defence for people accused of crimes, expect it to come up more and more.  Used to be there was a legal standard required for an insanity defense... now just about anyone can claim it.
   1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 08:10:39 EST Annah

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      This personally bothers me because it makes it more difficult to get my problems or my wife's taken seriously.
   2. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 12:14:45 EST Verius

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      @maiyannah Doesn't an insanity plea just change your sentence from prison to guarded mental hospital? At least hereabouts many criminals actively avoid being examined for mental issues in order not to end up in a guarded mental hospital, mainly because a prison sentence is finite but the criminally insane only get out if they pass a review and can be kept indefinitely if judged to remain a danger to society.
      1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 12:44:40 EST Annah

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         @verius Apparently not back home in the UK