>>935802963
>To prevent this kind of imbalance
There is no imbalance.
One of them intentionally and willingly, culpably, committed a crime, and then attempted to cover up the crime with an excuse, showing premeditation.
The other was a non-culpable schizophrenic, under an episode, who did not try to cover up his crimes because he was not aware they were crimes or that they were wrong in the first place, who did not demonstrate any premeditation.
This is called the Totality of Circumstances in law, please Google.
Also, no matter who you are, the guy with schizophrenia got the worse end of the deal. There's no limit to how long you may be held in an institution, it's "as long as is necessary" to return someone to be a normal member of society.
This decision is made based on a singular case worker's determination, and potentially a board hearing. You don't get to know when you're done with being held, because they don't know.
There isn't any feelings based reasoning here. For the guy on the left to match the guy on the right, he has to commit the same crimes.
>Guy on right, 35 injuries, 1 death.
The guy on the right was charged with Hate Crime causing Death, (28x) hate crime causing bodily injury, First Degree (premeditated) murder, (8x) malicious wounding, (5x) aggravated malicious wounding, (2x) felonious assault, and leaving the scene of an accident.
>Guy on left, 20 injuries, 1 death.
The guy on the left didn't attempt to flee, he was tackled immediately by an officer. He demonstrably didn't remember the event, and had a long history of mental health upsets including medication use to treat these medical episodes.
>Why different?
15 less injured people, NGRI, no premeditation.
Vs.
A dude who wrote a political manifesto before his attack, planned it meticulously, admitted it was a political attack, without ever even mentioning his schizophrenia diagnosis during discovery (prob. because he knew a sane man never gets out the Looney, has no right to appeal.)
