Ramos, of Laurel, Maryland, had a well-documented history of harassing the newspaper’s journalists. He filed a lawsuit against the paper in 2012, alleging he was defamed in an article about his conviction in a criminal harassment case in 2011. The Capital had published a story describing allegations by a woman who said Ramos harassed her online for months. The defamation suit was dismissed as groundless, and Ramos railed against staff at the newspaper in profanity-laced tweets.
In the days following the attack, area judges and an attorney received letters that threatened the newsroom and were signed with Ramos’ name.
And did anyone in law enforcement or the judiciary ever consider ordering a psych eval. after the online harassment of the woman?
He needs to spend the rest of his life behind bars with no possibility of parole.
This is the sanest thing he’s done.
That’s some Catch, that Catch-22…
The sad thing is that this guy is probably exactly as sane as most of Trump’s base: not so crazy he can’t hold down a job or stay out of prison, but unhinged enough that the right conspiracy theory can trigger the anger that’s simmering just beneath the surface at his own recognition that he’s not a “winner” by his own measure. And, like any good Trumper, he’s sitting on a fucking munition depot.
If this guy is found too crazy to be held responsible, then half of Trump’s base is too crazy to go near a ballot.
Of course not, being proactive to protect women isn’t really a consideration for the judicial or political systems, if it was we would see far fewer women executed by their exes who leave them.
Every state’s insanity defense is different, but his actions don’t seem to reflect the actions of a legally insane person in any state of which I am aware. Why does his lawyer think this might work? I am asking because I want somebody familiar with Maryland law to tell us.
Actually, just an off-shore portion of Trump’s base has to do is get to the voting machines on election day, just like in 2016.
We don’t know that the attorney thinks that it will work. May just be the last option available.
don’t you understand? women are too sensitive and just need to deal with it
And to think how many of us have been pressured to the boiling point by trumpism, yet we remain sane and resist productively.
Wussies.
An insanity defense has nearly zero chance of working. If his lawyers were smart they would invoke the Trump defense.
“If this guy is found too crazy to be held responsible, then half of Trump’s base is too crazy to go near a ballot.”
Woo-hoo! Time to order a truckload of paper for the “red flag letter” printer!