Purdue University student Boda Wu to raise insanity defense in choke attack
Long and short of it, the accusation is that one student approached the other, wrapped a telephone wire around her neck, and choked her. She claims she'd never seen him before, so random attack. Now he's out of jail and in a secure mental facility.
Professionally, I know the facility where the story says he is. (No, I have NOT been a patient there, thankyouverymuch!) The doors are locked by keycard/fob, and in that respect, it is indeed secure. I'm not aware of them taking "forensic" patients before this, though it's very possible they have and I just didn't know it. While reading this, I wondered several things:
What if the site of the attack hadn't made lawful carry a punishable offense (not a crime, but extralegal punishment, i.e. termination/expulsion)? Would the victim or someone else have been able to have ended this threat?
The story says that if convicted, he will be "Guilty but mentally ill", which I understand to be different from "not guilty by reason of insanity". Does this mean that once declared competent, he will then face a period of time as a guest of the state, or is time in a mental facility (and actually, a fairly nice one) counted as "time served"?
Does this facility, then, qualify as a place where carry is an actual crime? (if it is, I've never noticed safe storage anywhere, as I've seen at other lockups, presumably for police use, but I never saw anything that restricted such to LEOs. This is one of the very few GFZs I would support, if applied universally.)
If the previous question is answered in the affirmative, how does that impact the carry of a knife?
Sarcastically, I also wondered when the calls would begin for "phone cord control", but then I thought about the locked units at the facility: The nurse stations are open, such that patients could easily reach over and take any number of objects. While there are usually enough people to stop a single patient from causing too much mayhem or attempting escape, if all this guy needed was a phone cord, what could/would he do with a stapler or phone (bludgeon) or another cord, were he to catch an aide or a nurse unaware?
We've all seen the movies where someone fakes illness to get out of a jail setting and make an escape attempt; What happens when this guy does that? Ambulance crews are not police, and if he were to move to escape the back of a rig, they have no authority to attempt to stop him. (Restraints are HIGHLY discouraged, and some rigs don't even have them available onboard.) There are EMTs of both genders who are fairly small and, while not frail, would be more easily overpowered by a determined attacker, bent on escape. Who is protecting them enroute?
Discuss.
Blessings,
Bill
Long and short of it, the accusation is that one student approached the other, wrapped a telephone wire around her neck, and choked her. She claims she'd never seen him before, so random attack. Now he's out of jail and in a secure mental facility.
Professionally, I know the facility where the story says he is. (No, I have NOT been a patient there, thankyouverymuch!) The doors are locked by keycard/fob, and in that respect, it is indeed secure. I'm not aware of them taking "forensic" patients before this, though it's very possible they have and I just didn't know it. While reading this, I wondered several things:
What if the site of the attack hadn't made lawful carry a punishable offense (not a crime, but extralegal punishment, i.e. termination/expulsion)? Would the victim or someone else have been able to have ended this threat?
The story says that if convicted, he will be "Guilty but mentally ill", which I understand to be different from "not guilty by reason of insanity". Does this mean that once declared competent, he will then face a period of time as a guest of the state, or is time in a mental facility (and actually, a fairly nice one) counted as "time served"?
Does this facility, then, qualify as a place where carry is an actual crime? (if it is, I've never noticed safe storage anywhere, as I've seen at other lockups, presumably for police use, but I never saw anything that restricted such to LEOs. This is one of the very few GFZs I would support, if applied universally.)
If the previous question is answered in the affirmative, how does that impact the carry of a knife?
Sarcastically, I also wondered when the calls would begin for "phone cord control", but then I thought about the locked units at the facility: The nurse stations are open, such that patients could easily reach over and take any number of objects. While there are usually enough people to stop a single patient from causing too much mayhem or attempting escape, if all this guy needed was a phone cord, what could/would he do with a stapler or phone (bludgeon) or another cord, were he to catch an aide or a nurse unaware?
We've all seen the movies where someone fakes illness to get out of a jail setting and make an escape attempt; What happens when this guy does that? Ambulance crews are not police, and if he were to move to escape the back of a rig, they have no authority to attempt to stop him. (Restraints are HIGHLY discouraged, and some rigs don't even have them available onboard.) There are EMTs of both genders who are fairly small and, while not frail, would be more easily overpowered by a determined attacker, bent on escape. Who is protecting them enroute?
Discuss.
Blessings,
Bill
