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« on: June 24, 2015, 08:21:43 AM »
Inbetween hitting "Reply" and getting the posting screen (I have dial up, so there was time), I changed my mind on the police letting Willie live there. First, you have to let him live someplace. It's poor taste to let him live in Collinsport, and a sensible person knows it's dangerous, but are the residents of some other town somewhere, where he could choose to live instead, of more value? Any town would need protecting from a violent Willie.
If his violence was officially attributed to insanity though, and he's officially sane now, he's part of the legal category of sane people with rights, who get to live where they want.
In reality of course, we know it's all a lot messier than that. So we give judges latitude to do a lot of sometimes crazy stuff to people to allow for these messy areas. I don't know if they can say "Don't live anywhere near Collinsport, sane citizen Willie", but they probably can. Whether it's fair I don't know.