Personality problem and P use do not constitute legal "insanity".
Guilt is established when responsibility can be assigned. Therefore, in criminal cases for minors, or for the mentally incompetent, guilt may not be established beyond a reasonable doubt.
In this case a man was murdered by the now convicted defendant, in cold blood to "send a message" to police. The defendant looks wide eyed and crazed at the jury but they were not intimited or did they flinch from finding him guilty.
The judge handed down a 20 year non-parole jail term as the prisoner in the dock yelled out "bring back the electric chair".
Does this mean that there is a difference between legal "insanity" and actual irrationality?
The legal precident that P use can not justify crimes appears to have been set.
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