Jackson Jambalaya

thug.

white and rich-let him go home
black and poor-left to rot in jail (not that i'm complaining)

this is preferred treatment for a white person, for sure

I know Lee Abraham will sleep good after learning this.

A psychiatrist receiving court mandated 'outpatient psychiatric treatment' is a huge joke. He will enjoy gaming both the legal system and the staff at Pine Grove. Perhaps he will have the same shrink who was working with Tiger Woods on his erection-control issues.

He was an oncologist.....

If he can get out of Whitfield....he can be held in jail.

Finally a success. A criminal does good and still people complain.

If a Circuit Court commits someone to Whitfield, how does a Chancery Court have jurisdiction to order that person be released? Seriously.

No ankle bracelet?! He will quit taking meds, his wife cannot control him and never has, and he is 1.5 hours from Greenwood.

There was a case in Texas once where I asked an older atty, who knew the Defendant, if he thought the defendant was crazy. He thought for a second and said 'There's crazy, and there's doorknob-sucking crazy; he's the latter.' So os Smith.

5:44 - Not unless the jurdge order that. No matter his specialty, he is smart enough to live the next five years gaming the system and the professionals.

And when he is arrested for breaking into Lee Abraham's residence to get some lighting fixtures he left behind, he can go back to pretending he's crazy.

How exactly does this work? He got a pass on ordering a hit because he was batshit crazy?

He is eligible to stand trial. Whether he will will have to be seen. My bet is he is not out of the Pine Grove very long. I give him 3 months being at home and he is either arrested, dead, back in court facing conspiracy charges.

please keep him out of Fondren. we have our own challenges.

*39, being eligible to get out of Whitfield does not necessarily translate to being competent to stand trial. Different standard. In order to solve this problem, Lee's personal bodyguards (those stationed in the Sillers Building) can find and eliminate this terrorist threat easier if he is in Jackson - they won't have to travel to the delta for their next shootout.

So what happened to the mysterious chair?

Mental illness does not choose favorites, or segregate based on intelligence, social class, or skin color. People deserve the right to be treated, and given opportunity to change. I consider this a success story for the Mississippi mentally ill. Dr. Smith practiced for over 20 years with about 30 different patients per month. There is no telling how many lives were extended or saved.

Holy shit. That video is terrifying

This is a disgrace. Arnold Smith's wife is not able to control or supervise him in any way. She's a lovely person, but not up to that task. His scheme ended up with death - and it is totally unclear as yet how the whole thing went down. People in Greenwood believe the presence of the Atty Gen of the state at the scene of a shooting and the strange way evidence was and wasn't gathered indicate something off in the investigation. Now we have the cause of the whole mess proposed to walk free? What is wrong with this? What would happen if Dr. Smith had been a person of moderate means and education? Would he have an ankle bracelet and a free pass?

The odds of a happy ending are slim to none.

the peasant class is always so surprised and upset when they see the true purpose of our legal system and how it works for a few of us.

Watched the chair video. This guy is seriously crazy as a shit house rat.

Maybe he will get well enough to work at the new Costco in Ridgeland.

12:23 am While you are right that neither money nor intelligence or status protects one from mental illness, your logic ends there.
You are incorrectly assuming that all those with mental illness are able to " change" and lead a normal life with treatment.
That is just not the case.
While there can be temporary mental illness usually from trauma or drugs, more often severe mental illness like you see in the clip is not " cured".
What is more common is that the worst symptoms of the mental illness can be managed with medication, clinical and family supervision, and the cooperation of the patient so that the person is not a threat to himself or others.
The cooperation of the patient is the most difficult hurdle and is often temporary.
The " rights" of anyone end when that person tromps on the rights of others and putting another's life at risk or killing another human being is the ultimate violation of someone's rights.
Protecting the life of our citizens is the primary responsibility of any civilized society.
We are NOT doing a good job of that because of the ignorance or our citizens , lawmakers and judicial system about mental illness.
Your comment is a case in point.

It's kinda hard to just quit taking what is most likely a haloperidol shot or something similar. So, there's that.

How 'hard is it to just quit taking' a shot? Wouldn't you just sort of, well.....stop?

Yes, the patient can refuse to go to his follow-up clinic appointment at the local mental health clinic. In that situation, it triggers a system to have them reschedule and come in the next few days as a rescheduled patient. After a small amount of time, one option is there is a crisis prevention van that can bring medical professionals to a patient's house to offer the injectable. The alternative is a sheriff will take the patient back to Whitfield for inpatient treatment if the patient continuously refuses, or becomes violent. Typically the threat of inpatient treatment will make anyone take an injection. This is a new system, but that is what I understand.