It's very likely neither the prosecutor nor defense want to deal with the legal can of worms any ruling will create. Unusual cases with rare situations involving serious charges can set precedence for future cases. They're probably trying to cooperate and deal with this in the least damaging way possible.
J&DR cases do not create legal precedent, as they are not courts of record.
Precedent comes from the self, and case law flows downward, so you can refer to a case from a parallel court but it's not case law for it. In a court that is not a court of record, there is also no precedent as the proceedings are not formally recorded in a legal sense (even if they've been recorded in a physical sense).
So as I understand it (again I am not an authority on Virginia law, this is just from general knowledge of how English common law jurisdictions work):
District-level (including J&DR): There is no precedent, binding case law comes from the Circuit Courts in their judicial district, and the successive courts above it. Decisions from Circuit Courts in other judicial districts are only advisory.
Circuit Court: There is precedent from previous decisions of Circuit Courts in the same judicial district (Virginia has a Circuit Court in every county/independent city, but they represent the same Circuit of all counties in their judicial district), and binding case law from higher courts. Decisions from other judicial districts are advisory if they do not conflict with precedent from Circuits in the district, or case law from higher courts.
Virginia Court of Appeals: Precedent from the VCA (itself). Binding case law from Virginia Supreme Court. Circuit Court decisions are advisory if they do not conflict with precedent from VCA or case law from the Virginia Supreme Court.
Virginia Supreme Court: Precedent from itself, all other cases from lower courts are advisory if they do not conflict with precedent.
EDIT: And of course all Virginia courts are beholden to federal case law with regard to the constitutionality of Virginia law, so to the Fourth Circuit and to SCOTUS.
EDIT 2: I also should point out that precedent comes from judicial decisions, and since Circuit Court is mostly concerned with jury trials, self-created precedent doesn't have much meaning at the Circuit level since judges at that level are mostly concerned with following what they're bound to by higher courts, and most of the big decisions are made by juries, who are not judges and thus don't create precedent.
Anything important or controversial decided by a judge at the Circuit level tends to get appealed to a higher court, which will then create binding precedent/case law.
Or him waiting for the court (or would it be the jail?) to find a placement for him, as required by law. They have to look for 30 days after his "release", and I think they are required to make sure he gets there, so I highly doubt they'd put him up in a hotel without supervision in the meantime.
It depends on how they follow the spirit of the law. They have to make sure he is connected with care and services to meet the needs of his condition, and ensure that they are ongoing. If they do it right, he goes into a tard home. The more cynical side of me says they kick him into a homeless shelter and assign a case worker to meet with him once a week and make sure he's getting meds and therapy (similar to what he was doing in the therapeutic docket, only housed in a homeless shelter instead of the Sonichu Temple).
Hopefully Heilberg is a responsible enough attorney to insist on the tard home, and Consolvo realizes that Chris is far more likely to cause problems for Greene County if he's 20 miles away in a Charlottesville homeless shelter instead of a tard home across the state.
Didn't he claim in that video he wasn't actually collecting any tugboat but instead worked hard to support his family? I'm not sure that claiming you don't need a tugboat as a strategy to keeping the tugboat is a leap of "logic" even Chris could make.
The parent poster misunderstood what happened. Chris did Rollin' and Trollin', then trolls convinced Chris that the SSA would watch the R&T video, and upon seeing him claim to be a well-adjusted, gainfully employed individual, they'd sink his tugboat. To prevent this from happening, Chris made another video recanting R&T and admitting he was a tard.
