Judge rejects use of Asperger's syndrome by defense in murde

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we need more judges like this.

I that judge, we need more judges like that.

Guilty! Life without parole!

Not just my view, todays news.

After analysis the situation itself, as the trial is in the general region where I live, I conclude that this person got the right punishment and right verdict. Even with the diagnose with Aspergers Syndrome and if it were allowed in the defense, it would have been a pretty hard sell. By the definition of an insanity defense, it practically would of mean the person would had no control over there actions. It was not random and how to not know that killing someone purposely because of a so called joke is legally and morally wrong is beyond me. Not to mention the person was bragging about the fact afterward. I suppose that could prove taking something literally and being obsessive about the idea, but good grief why would person ever do so and not consider what is being really suggested. So yes given him a guilty verdict and life in prison without parole is a correct punishment, regardless of the fact if he has Aspergers Syndrome or not.

I'm afraid that because of people like this guy who tried to use his AS for an excuse in the courtroom, that people won't take AS as seriously. We know right from wrong, and we understand the consequences of our actions alot better than most do, and cases like this put people with AS in a bad light. I know the judge didn't buy it, the jury didn't buy it, but how about the thousands of people (or possibly hundreds of thousands) who read the newspaper with this article in it? If just one of 5 of those people believed that people with AS just use it as an excuse, and those people they tell, one of every 5 of those people told someone and so on...well soon enough, the general population would group us all together and think AS is a joke.

The enlightened few (doctors, psychiatrists, people with a brain, etc.) would obviously know better, but what about the rest of the world? It's bad enough that people with stuff like schizophrenia become the laughing stock of people around them mostly. Imagine now what AS could become if this happened?

I doubt highly that it ever would, but it does make you think, doesn't it?