I can’t really tell if this is standard batshit, or if he’s somewhat elevated.
“Mr. Jones, you may not say to this jury that you complied with discovery. That is not true. You may not say it again. You may not tell this jury that you are bankrupt. That is also not true,” Gamble said.
“You are already under oath to tell the truth,” Gamble added. “You’ve already violated that oath twice today, in just those two examples. It seems absurd to instruct you again that you must tell the truth while you testify. Yet here I am again.”
“This is not your show,” Gamble added.
Those defenses almost never work and even if they do, you do not avoid jail time or at least what amounts to jail time.I'm just waiting for the "mentally insane" angle to avoid jail time. Lock him up and throw away the key.
LOLHere’s the moment where Alex finds out his lawyers suck.
Every accusation is a confession.
Those defenses almost never work and even if they do, you do not avoid jail time or at least what amounts to jail time.
If you are found not guilty due to insanity you go to a psychiatric facility for criminals, which is basically jail. The only difference is you have no control over if you ever get out. Basically the only positive thing about a successful insanity plea is you can't be put to death. Everything else about it is largely worse than just going to regular jail.
That is surprising how often they work! Also if I'm not mistaken as you allude to in your first paragraph to get away with this shit you can't be run of the mill crazy, you need to be pretty seriously nuts.I checked on this, and was surprised to find a statistic which says that insanity defenses have worked 26% of the time (but are only used in 1% of criminal cases). However, the same source also said that 90% of the successful defenses involved defendants who were previously diagnosed with serious mental illness before the crime occurred.
AFAIK, Jones has never been diagnosed with anything like schizophrenia. There was an expert in his divorce proceeding who said that Jones likely has narcissistic personality disorder, but I'm afraid that having narcissistic personality, which in common parlance roughly equates to being a fucking asshole, isn't going to give any support for this kind of defense. "I'm sorry, either due to a genetic accident or questionable parenting, I'm a fucking asshole, and that's why I lied. Please have mercy on me."
That is surprising how often they work! Also if I'm not mistaken as you allude to in your first paragraph to get away with this shit you can't be run of the mill crazy, you need to be pretty seriously nuts.
Here’s the moment where Alex finds out his lawyers suck.