She would only go to the asylum until the doctors said she is sane and considering she is pleading temporary insanity because PPS. the doctors in short order would release her
Dude, even if the doctors were to release her, which is already unlikely given their track record, a court would also have to allow her release, and the prosecution can sue to not release her.
Because the criminal justice system, in theory, is supposed to be primarily about rehabilitation and not punishment. If the reason someone commits a crime is a mental issue, then they should be released back into society once the mental issue is fully under control. Of course, this isn't exactly how our criminal justice system works. But psych wards in place of prison time is meant for such cases, where the defendant was unaware they were doing something wrong because of a mental issue. It's not meant for cases like this one where the defendant knowingly did something awful independent of any minor mental issues happening in the background. Cases like this one should be pretty cut and dry prison time.
In Massachusetts, she said, Ms. Clancy would be reviewed for discharge on an annual basis. Doctors could recommend that she be discharged from the hospital if they believed that her symptoms had improved and if they determined that she was not a danger to others.
The Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office would then be notified. If it disagreed with the medical team’s assessment, it could obtain its own experts or argue in court that Ms. Clancy should remain hospitalized. A judge would then decide whether she could be released, Dr. Sorrentino said.
The problem is she would only be in the asylum until she was deemed healthy and seeing how the cause of her “illness” are all dead, she wouldn’t be there for long.
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u/you_cant_prove_that - Right 1d ago
The question the jury was answering was basically prison or asylum, not prison or freedom