Insanity Defense For Hacking Email Doesn't Work
from the nice-try dept
Pleading an insanity defense may work in some extreme cases, but it seems like a pretty big stretch to plead insanity as a defense to hacking someone’s computer to access their email. The case involved a defendant in an existing case, who hacked into the plaintiff’s email accounts to aid his case. When caught, he then claimed that his bipolar disorder caused him to hack the email account. Yeah. Not surprisingly, the judge was not impressed. So, sorry, but claiming “not guilty of hacking by reason of insanity” probably isn’t going to get you very far.
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We’re gonna need a bigger jail.
I'm sorry your honor, but...
My client is an idiot and therefore not responsible for his actions?
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Sounds like a Simpsons joke
I' Sorry
My client is an idiot and therefore not responsible for his actions? LMFAO.
Could work tho! heh
He should try “The Chewbacca Defense”.
It couldn’t be any worse
I don’t know the specifics of the case, but generally speaking:
What I’m hearing is that you think that if a person pleads insanity that means they are temporarily unable to accomplish any kind of task they would normally be able to do, and therefore how could one be insane while hacking?
The legal definition of insanity, as I know it, is that a person does not understand at the time that what they are doing is wrong.
Bipolar, in it’s extreme forms, is a very debilitating disease. We use the term bipolar in everyday conversation quite loosely and consequently we think of it as more of a joke disease rather than anything serious. I attribute the reaction here to this trend.
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What I’m hearing is that it’s probably just making stuff up to claim that a person didn’t know it was wrong to hack someone’s computer because of bipolar disorder.
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I agree with this completely. Bipolar disorder can cause those with it to do things they may not normally do without affecting their intellectual abilities. However, I don’t really know what the legal definition of insanity is and whether or not it covers bipolar disorder.
I take it this person had no idea how absolutely dangerous it was to attempt an insanity defense. If he had “won”, he’d be screwed for basically the rest of his life. He should be thanking this judge.
reason
hacking takes a bit of fore thought and also thusly premeditation which is what an insane person is not as likely to do let along all this hacking required
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