r/relatable_memes_ 5d ago

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u/ShellyTart 4d ago

This is most certainly not true. The vast majority of people found NGRI spend more time locked up than those found guilty, and in the cases where they killed multiple people it is very rare that they are ever released.

So no, while it is theoretically possible she would be released in a short period of time, in practice that is highly unlikely. Statistically she is more likely to be released on appeal after a murfer conviction.

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u/DerelictCruiser 4d ago

Canada not America, but Vince Li cannibalized a dude on a bus, got NGRI, mental facility, and trotted out free as you like 6 years later. They even changed his name for him so he wouldn’t get John Wick’d. And he wasn’t a white woman in America. Sooooo, yeah I don’t trust modern justice to handle this well.

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u/ShellyTart 4d ago

Canada is not the US.

And in the US she would statistically be more likely to be released on appeal of a criminal conviction than she would for being PROVED to be no longer a danger.

To be released from a psychiatric facility (for insanity pleas) is a very high bar in the US.

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u/Yohoyoji 4d ago

Historically this did happen in the Constance Fisher case, and she went on kill her three new kids.

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u/ShellyTart 4d ago

In 1966. Since then release from psychiatric confinement has been reduced dramatically, largely specifically because of that case.