In Infuriating Ruling, Court Decides Drug User Cannot Be Held Criminally Responsible for Throwing Elderly Woman to Her Death

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Business Insider noted the drug user and dealer had smoked up to 15 joints a day since the age of 13 — although he apparently was able to repress his urges until, at the age of 27, he killed a person.

The court determined that “a person is not criminally responsible if suffering, at the time of the event, from psychic or neuropsychic disturbance that has eliminated all discernment or control.”

That law, the French court found, doesn’t apply differently to someone who has lost discernment through voluntary drug use.

--And then there is happenings like this that make a person wish for that asteroid to take out this planet.--

The Mariner wrote:https://www.westernjournal.com/infuriating-ruling-court-decides-drug-user-cannot-held-criminally-responsible-throwing-elderly-woman-death/?ff_source=Twitter&ff_medium=PostTopSharingButtons&ff_campaign=websitesharingbuttons

Business Insider noted the drug user and dealer had smoked up to 15 joints a day since the age of 13 — although he apparently was able to repress his urges until, at the age of 27, he killed a person.

The court determined that “a person is not criminally responsible if suffering, at the time of the event, from psychic or neuropsychic disturbance that has eliminated all discernment or control.”

That law, the French court found, doesn’t apply differently to someone who has lost discernment through voluntary drug use.

--And then there is happenings like this that make a person wish for that asteroid to take out this planet.--

This was clearly a hate crime. Virtually anyone and everyone could claim "insanity" or suffering from a "psychic or neuropsychic" disturbance who committed murder. I guess if you want to commit murder, France is the place to do it.

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