Re insanity pleading:
This is all over both threads, the idea that Chris “will plead insanity“ or be found not guilty by reason of insanity,
This is not going to happen.
This document here outlines the limits of the insanity defence in Virginia criminal law.
https://dbhds.virginia.gov/library/forensics/ofo - section 1 all sections.pdf
Interested parties may wish to read it. It will be swiftly apparent based on Chris’ own statements and content that he has no fucking hope of pleading any insanity defence.
The fact Chris is a nut job does not in itself provide a defence. He also must either:
- not understand the nature, character, and consequences of his act; OR
- be unable to distinguish right from wrong; OR
- be unable to resist the impulse to commit the act.
Let’s look at what we know. Chris has bragged to multiple people in grotesque detail about the acts he perpetrated on Barb. He was in no way lacking in understanding that those acts were of a sexual nature or that he was doing them to someone other than Barb. So the first leg of the test is out.
He concealed the identity of the person he was abusing from Null and I assume others. This shows he knows the act was considered wrong and indeed shows he was almost certainly aware it was legally prohibited. So the second leg is gone.
He bought a Sex With The Disabled book on Amazon at some point before or during the abuse. VA law rules out ”irresistible impulse“ - the third leg of the test - if there is evidence of premeditation. He bought a book to assist him in molesting Bar. There’s your premeditation.
Being found not fit to plead, or not guilty due to reason of insanity, is not going to happen for Chris even though he is a sped and possibly delusional too. We can stop talking about this possibility. There is sufficient evidence here to make out the case that he wanted to rape his mom, decided to rape his mom, raped his mom, and then bragged about it remorselessly afterwards whilst trying to conceal jusssst enough of the truth to not get partyvanned.
That’s where we are. That is what he did.