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by kar5pt 916 days ago
What bothers me about this isn't that he was committed to a "hospital" (read: jail for mentally ill people).

What bothers me is that the sentence is indefinite. The judge can give him a life sentence for what wouldn't normally justify a life sentence because he's calling it "medicine". The hospital commitment shouldn't be able to last longer than the sentence he would receive if he was neurotypical.