10-30-2018, 07:01 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-30-2018, 07:05 AM by dicappatore.)
(10-30-2018, 05:00 AM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: I don't think the hex defense would work for Adalind. She was a hexenbiest her entire life and didn't have it suddenly dumped on her, and it was clear in episode 1 that she wasn't falling apart emotionally at the time she carried out Renard's instructions to kill Marie. The fact that she was maintaining a legal career at the same time she was acting as Renard's criminal vassal is evidence of that and would work against her, not for her.
In Juliette's case, she was conspicuously going to pieces at the time she committed her various criminal acts. The charges and probable defense I described for her would be the same if there was no hexenbiest and she had developed some sort of brain tumor or other disease that resulted in a sudden and extreme personality shift.
All of the above would be applicable whether the world knew about wesen or not, assuming that the world was not carrying out some genocidal kill wesen on sight pogrom, in which case charges for either Adalind or Juliette would become academic.
The big fly in the ointment is HW. In a world where wesen were known, would they still be there, not wanting BC and their war against it to become public knowledge, and would they still have abducted Juliette and turned her into Eve? If no, figure on someone defending Juliette in court trying the mental condition argument; if yes, figure on Juliette still disappearing before she can be arrested and charged.
I was trying to give you all the options for Juliette, 6 years 3 months for felony murder if a jury doesn't buy the mental condition defense or the feds saving her from arrest by abducting her and brainwashing her into Eve. But either way there's no free pass for her. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
(10-30-2018, 04:34 AM)Henry of green Wrote: does that mean any teenage wesen should also be let off their crimes considering they can’t control themselves, as most wesen are born human and don’t start woging until in their teenage years like Monroe and Rosalee.
Based on what I see in the real world, I tend to believe that the worst fears expressed by those panicked wesen in the episode about the bank robbers would come to pass and wesen would be hunted down and exterminated if their existence became known, but assuming for a moment that that didn't happen, I think wesen kids would still be segregated into secure "special needs" schools until they had transitioned and demonstrated their ability to control themselves. And then no, being an out of control wesen would not be a defense for them, just a reason for society to lock them up.
All I can say to you about you and your excuses for Juliette is what I told my required psych class professor way way back, years ago. Psychology or as in Juliette's case, Created Hexenbiests Syndrome. The study of the subject on hand, makes great science to study and explain human or Wesen behavior. It does not excuse it.
I don't make excuses for Adalind' bad behavior as an outside spectator. Too bad, the Juliette fans aren't capable to do the same and just accept the evil woman she became. Not my opinion but the facts of her creators.
(10-30-2018, 06:18 AM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: It was strongly implied, if not stated outright, that the firm was run by wesen who used the hexenbiests' abilities to improperly influence the outcome of many of their dealings. IOW, crooked lawyers. Or is saying "crooked lawyers" just being repetitive?
So, they were crooked as Hexenbiest, because they were born into it. Hex Juliette gets a pass? Well thats fair?
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