ASPartOfMe wrote:
That gets back to the crux the issue. Autism is not insanty.[/quote]
Yes, autism is not insanity,but some people are so severly autistic that they wouldn't be fit to stand trial,there was a case of a autistic teen who stabbed his mother,I don't have a link.Some severly autistic people are violent and don't have the mental capacity to know it's wrong.
Some autistic people have been so mistreated by the world that there autistic related experiences are legit mitigation at sentencing,particularly in a death penalty case,a person with mental disease or defect cannot be put to death.
Not all mental disease or defect defenses have to meet traditional definitions of insanity,if there to severly autistic to know right from wrong,they might not be insane but they wouldn't have to stand trial.And any mental disease or defect is good mitigation in the sentence phase.
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