Quote Originally Posted by firstandten View Post
You are speaking as a rational person would speak or act. Listening to the guys ranting on the internet it was pretty clear he had a mental illness. Mental illness is very high among people in that age group. Unfornately the young lady got caught up in his world.
You got it, first. Unfortunately, unless your life has been impacted directly or indirectly by mental illness [[my brother is a paranoid schizophrenic), it's difficult to understand this for a lot of people. Look at what happened in the Colin Ferguson incident - the courts actually allowed the guy to represent himself!! If you saw any footage of that trial with him acting as his own defense attorney, you can see that there's a long way to go in mental illness being understood by the masses, let alone the legal system. That incident may have been a few years ago, but I don't think much progress has been made.