[HPforGrownups] Justice / trials

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 5964

Simon at simon.branford at hertford.ox.ac.uk wrote:

> You still get a trial in the UK in cases of insanity.
> When you are asked how you plead, in response to the charges announced, you
> would plead not guilty on ground of insanity (or something in that line).
> Evidence is then presented to show whether or not this is the case and if it
> is you are then found not guilty but sent off for psychiatric evaluation and
> go to the appropriate mental institution.
> 
> Note that I am no way involved in the legal system and so the above is just
> based on my knowledge of what goes on (in particular reference to the case
> of the man accused of attempted murder of George Harrison (of the Beatles),
> which had it trial about 200 metres from where I live last week, where this
> insanity plead came up).

See, I thought that George Harrison's attacker was not going to be tried for
attempted murder on grounds of his insanity -- but rather locked away for a
very long time under some obscure thingywhat. I think that's the way that
the UK courts get around it.

--John

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John "there really is a monster!" Walton     john at walton.to    ICQ: 96203920

George Bush: Electile Dysfunction complicated by Premature Congratulations.

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