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Originally Posted by Ryan Coke
The unfortunate thing is that by not putting restrictions on Li/Baker, there is the risk that if he reoffends then it could lead to the elimination or change to the NCR law as it stands. If Li were to go off meds and do another violent act, there would be strong political pressure to either get rid of the NCR law altogether, or to substantially modify it from its current form.
I don't see the upside to not maintaining conditions on his release.
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Regarding your last sentence, another thing I talked about is that the review board may have been limited by the legal parameters of release.
So for example let's say there are 5 main parts to being eligible for an absolute discharge. If he met all 5 they may have had to grant the discharge because this was a legal decision they may have known that any appeal to their ruling wouldn't stand up so they felt compelled to release him.
Basically it sounded like the medical experts give impartial evidence and if it meets the criteria the he has to be granted his discharge. They may not have been able to act on hunches or feelings or even agreed with the decision.
This is highly speculative. There's a legal aspect here that my relative wasn't familiar with. She was speculating purely from the perspective of one of his case workers or whatever.