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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Vince Li (now Will Baker) was granted an absolute discharge but was/is subject to nightly monitoring to ensure he took his medication.
Do not conflate absolute discharge in terms of a legal status that removes the individual from needing to go infront of the Review Board with no medical support. Those are two different aspects to a discharging an NCR patient.
And again, remember that these cases are extremely rare. Studies have shown people who declared NCR from violent offenses have far lower recidivism rates than those with lesser offenses.
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What are you talking about? Li has no requirements to have any type of monitoring done on him. Any interaction LI has with the medical system is entirely of his own choosing
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.3979861
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Where critics of the case have a point is in the decision to grant Li an absolute discharge, meaning he is essentially free of the justice system, rather than a conditional discharge, whereby Li would be required to stick to a treatment plan or report regularly to a psychiatrist. The absolute discharge does make sense from a legal perspective: the review board is required to choose the "disposition that is the least onerous and least restrictive to the accused." As long as the individual "does not pose a significant threat to the safety of the public," he or she must be discharged absolutely.
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Li does not pose a risk to the public now that he is on his medication, according to the medical professionals who have treated him for the last near-decade. But the checks and balances that once existed for him (from a legal perspective, at least) disappeared the moment he was granted an absolute discharge. There is now no legal recourse if he stops taking his medication or seeing his psychiatrist, which is unconscionable for many of those affected by Li's actions, including McLean's family. Understandably so.
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Can you link anything show that compliance with medication or treatment after an absolute discharge is not voluntary?