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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
I mean, chance for punishment is greater if fit for trial instead of the alternate of being mentally unfit, so wouldn't you rather that be the case?
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In this case probably not, killing animals doesn't get you much of a sentence, less than 2 years, where as being found incompetent is an indefinite sentence.
I worked with a very low IQ kid a while back, he got into a tussle with a cop, basically a shoving match as the cop was trying to question him, cop ended up on their arse and knicked him for assaulting a police officer (mostly as he was embarrassed this dumb kid pushed him over), as a first offence and with him clearly being not that bright I doubt he would have been jailed if he pled guilty, he had a young lawyer that argued non competence though to avoid a criminal record, he was found not fit for trial and spent 3 years in a locked psych facility which was frankly worse than jail