https://www.kare11.com/article/news/investigations/juvenile-justice/kare-11-investigates-legislators-fail-legislative-juvenile-gap-reforms/89-c0b818bf-2f10-420f-bfbd-8eef5d9d32d1
I want to make two points with this story.
The first and most obvious is that states governed virtually exclusively by the DFL are rife with these kinds of incidents. The families of the victims of this murderer should 100% be able to sue the state generally and possibly the judges/DAs individually for the entirely predictable results of their actions. It is absolutely insane that this type of thing happens with regularity and yet people like Dan just keep voting for the people who bring us this carnage over and over again. If harm reduction is truly the foundational principle of your moral code, and you're not outraged by this, then you have no moral code at all.
The second and less obvious, is that we are seeing local news stations picking up the ball and run with it when it comes to the fraud, crime, and government malfeasance we have seen over the last few years. While the MSM fawns over Walz and acts as if MN is a paradise, the local news people aren't afraid to report on these stories. Fair is fair, and acknowledging news organizations that aren't simply reading a press release from some left with group deserve props.
https://abc11.com/post/johnston-county-sheriff-reveals-timeline-murder-4-children-father-wellington-dickens-iii-charged/18085722
This is one more example of an individual with a long and violent criminal record being put in a position to cause more harm due to a "justice system" that is seriously screwed up.
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The only one "mentally incompetent" is the one who said the guy can't stand trial. He's mentally competent enough to get a gun and shoot people so he's mentally competent to stand trial.
I'm sick of the stupid "mental illness" claim being used to get criminals off.
Even if he really is too "mentally incompetent" to stand trial, the fact that he has a history of violence and murder should lead to him taken off of the streets. If the goal of the justice system is to eliminate or prevent harm to innocent citizens, it seems like putting this guy on the streets is a guarantee of harm to innocent citizens.
Put him in an asylum or execute him. One or the other.
No argument here. As long as he's not free to harm innocent citizens, I don't care where he is.
In all seriousness, anyone who claims that preventing harm is the basis for their moral code, who doesn't support getting this guy off of the streets, simply has no coherent moral code.
Absolutely. "Mental incompetence" is no justification for not incarcerating such a person somewhere, somehow with any release contingent on extensive and multiple (let's say, at least six) psychologists attesting to his "competence" having been restored. I don't believe that should necessarily mean automatically releasing the person from incarceration, but it can't happen at all without such qualification first being met.
There is no question in my mind that someone who indisputably committed murder and was judged "mentally incompetent" to stand trial should not be simply released into the community. It's possible, at some point, that treatment might help but not quickly.
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