After reading the report on Darius McCollum and having taken both a legal and psychological context into consideration, I feel that Darius had full knowledge of what he was doing and was surely capable of controlling his actions. Hence, there should be some degree of punishment for him. A determining factor that needs to be made known here is whether Darius' mental state was impaired to such an extent that he failed to understand the …
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…blamed on the vagueness of his condition- if, according to many skeptics, he even has one. What's more, because of the lack of any known remedial treatments for his, supposed, mental state coupled with the oftentimes aggressive and adversarial nature of the psychological professionals providing testimony, it gives an outsider looking in on the case a sense of despondency not only for Darius' position but also for the legal and justice system in our country.