Tucson is warm and sunny. I am enjoying the swimming pool and my little studio apartment.

Grr. Argh.

Maybe they should give folks drugs to make them sane long enough to decide whether they'd rather stand trial or stay insane indefinitely.

That's kind of my thinking. On the one hand, I'm squicked by the idea of forcibly altering someone's mental state. On the other, she did commit a crime and thereby forfeited a good chunk of rights. I guess I'd come down for medicating her for at least the hearing, in order to ensure that she had a fair shot at understanding what was happening.

eta: Also, if she wasn't medicated and she stood trial and was convicted and then at a later date returned to her sanity, couldn't she sue the state for not making sure she comprehended the charges?

Hey folks, I've got what I think is a Wonderfalls quote rattling around my brain, and I need a little help with it. I think it might be Jaye, and it goes: "Never been/had a [blank] before." I know that's vague, but that's all I've got. The rest of it's tone of voice and head movement, so I can't help there. The really annoying thing is that I've had this same quote bugging me before, and identified it... and now I've forgotten again.

Never been/had a [blank] before

Oh man, it's....it's....

mentor? role model? Something like that. It's from Karma Chameleon, when she's talking on the couch with the other girl.

Maybe they should give folks drugs to make them sane long enough to decide whether they'd rather stand trial or stay insane indefinitely.

If treatment results in a sane she that understands how wrong the insane she's behavior was, then sane she can plead insanity for the previously insane she's actions, if she is sane enough to consider this defense.

Exorcism?

mentor? role model? Something like that. It's from Karma Chameleon, when she's talking on the couch with the other girl.

Oh, oh, right! It's, uh... maybe icon? Or it could be role model. Something.

AND I finally won a free iTunes song for drinking diet pepsi. Phew.

Only just now, Jesse? I've won, like fifteen songs off of iTunes from Pepsi. I must be stealing all your songs.

I'd give them back, but I already downloaded them. They're mine, and you can't have them.

And yeah, forcibly drugging the crazy lady may sound awful, but since she's on trial, the alternative is actually worse. It needs to happen, whether she wants it or not.

On the other, she did commit a crime and thereby forfeited a good chunk of rights.

I don't know that I necessarily agree with this in all cases. If she committed the crime while insane, how could she have forfeited those rights?

Also, if she wasn't medicated and she stood trial and was convicted and then at a later date returned to her sanity, couldn't she sue the state for not making sure she comprehended the charges?

That's exactly why she has to be declared competent before they'll let her stand trial.

Wolfram, insent to profile addy.

(no need to bore the board with really boring legal stuff)

I just sent what I had accessible, so no promises of helpfulness.