This is so infuriating ... makes no common sense at all. Don't even have to be Hondaracer to get upset at this !! Get the laws changed now !!
B.C. man acquitted of attack that ‘terrorized’ woman on basis of drug-induced ‘automatism’
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/art...s-court-finds/
A B.C. man who admitted to attacking and sexually assaulting a woman before stabbing himself in the chest was acquitted of all charges, with the court ruling he “acted involuntarily” after taking magic mushrooms.
Leon-Jamal Barrett was charged with sexual assault and other offences in an attack that left a woman he had never met before “horrified and traumatized” in the early hours of March 9, 2019, according to a decision finding the accused not guilty on the grounds of non-mental disorder automatism.
“Mr. Barrett will not face a conviction in this matter, but he will live with the knowledge that he made a choice that resulted in temporarily losing his mind and committing an appalling series of acts against a stranger. The scar that he bears will be a constant reminder of these actions,” Judge Timothy Hinkson wrote in his decision.