"BuffyBot" ,'Dirty Girls'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
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.
Wolfram, insent to profile addy.
Thanks, Stephanie!
On the other, she did commit a crime and thereby forfeited a good chunk of rights.
Oooh, not to jump on you, but the whole point of our legal system is that you don't forfeit your rights just because you commit a crime. You'll lose rights after you're convicted of a crime, but not until then.
Wolfram, sorry that I missed the res judicata discussion. i kept reading and thinking, well . .. and then someone would say it! and it would have been vaguely work related. feh.
as for the crazy criminal question, some courts have found that the state may medicate a defendant for the purposes of determining whether they want to be medicated on a permanent basis.
the whole point of our legal system is that you don't forfeit your rights just because you commit a crime. You'll lose rights after you're convicted of a crime, but not until then.
I think that the word(s) you're looking for is not "commit" but "accused of"
Oooh, not to jump on you, but the whole point of our legal system is that you don't forfeit your rights just because you commit a crime. You'll lose rights after you're convicted of a crime, but not until then.
Like I noted above, yes you do get some things taken away if indicted. E.g., being jailed, or having assets frozen.
Vortex said it better.