TIL that, in the United States, if you're found not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity, you can be involuntarily confined in a mental institution indefinitely, regardless of what the maximum sentence would have been had you been found guilty


TIL that, in the United States, if you're found not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity, you can be involuntarily confined in a mental institution indefinitely, regardless of what the maximum sentence would have been had you been found guilty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_v._United_States_(1983) thisismywittyhandle October 31, 2018 at 01:22PM

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