Watch for this to hit our shores sooner than any of us would like,
‘Immune’ criminal strikes again
Stavanger police are at their wits’ end after having yet again to release a criminal that new laws say cannot be prosecuted.
According to new rules in the Norwegian penal code, the 30-year-old offender, who has broken the law for years, cannot be arrested and jailed.
Late Wednesday night Stavanger police were involved in a car chase, but when they found out who they had caught, they had to let him go. Because the man has been declared mentally handicapped he falls outside of the criminal justice system.
The man has broken into cars and homes, committed thefts and minor drug offenses but as long as the crimes are below a certain gravity he is has an effective license to commit crime, newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad reports.
The diagnosis means that he cannot do prison time and new rules prevent him from being put into preventative custody. Mentally handicapped criminals can only be sentenced to forced care in a medical institution in the case of serious crimes according to new laws.
District attorney Tormod Haugnes said that bank robbery or arson resulting in death is necessary before people like the 30-year-old can be put away.
“Psychiatrists have asserted that he is not capable of showing guilt or understanding how to behave in society without help. So he must get help,” Elden told Stavanger Aftenblad.
Holy crap, that applies to just about every single gangbanger I have ever met. They weren�t �Mentally Handicapped�, they just had no damn morals.
In his defense, he’s only mentally-handicapped; the legislators and jurists who promulgated this rule are morally-handicapped.