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.
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