QAnon Shaman's lawyer argues that his shirtlessness on Jan. 6 is evidence of his 'mental vulnerabili

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A lawyer for Jacob Angeli Chansley, also known as the QAnon Shaman, claims the notorious defendant's "shirtless presentation" during the January 6 Capitol riot is evidence of his "mental vulnerabilities" - which have only increased in the past five months as Chansley remains detained, his attorney, Albert Watkins argues in a new pretrial release motion.

"The acuity of the vulnerable Defendant has waned with each passing day of solitary confinement," Watkins writes in court documents reviewed by Insider. "The effects of same, like ivy, have slept, crept, and now leapt."

Adorned with a horned headdress and face paint, Chansley became one of the most recognizable attendees at the Capitol on January 6, photographed with his bullhorn and flagpole throughout the building that day.

Now, Watkins says his client's decision to go shirtless "in the cold of a Washington, DC, winter day" indicates pre-existing "mental vulnerabilities."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-shamans-lawyer-argues-shirtlessness-214758064.html

We know he's not very bright but that does not absolve his behavior.

[abqtommy]

1. The judge does have a choice to sentence him to prison or to a secure mental health facility

for a similar number of years. Either one works for me.

[Fresh_Start]

2. Clearly he needs to be in care where they provide his with clothes to wear

so that shirtlessness isn't an issue anymore

[onethatcares]

3. it crept like ivy

thru his brain, but no more than A.M. radio did it turn him insane.

ahh, finally a poetic attorney. It's a shame the lyric, "A winter day, in a deep and dark December" have already been taken.



Jeez, Now I got an ear worm of Paul Simon singing "I am a rock" with lyric changes...

[Comfortably_Numb]

4. Cry me a river. Shit that turd.

[UTUSN]

5. How was he so mentally organized to make the trip and do all that performance art?

That said, the lawyer shows his own mental vulnerabilities!1

[Kaleva]

6. Is this the lawyer who said he isn't a magician?

[Claire Oh Nette]

7. Mental Vulnerabilities?

I don't think that's a DSM-V diagnosis, is it?

Is he trying to say "gullible?"

The attorney claimed his client was on the Autism spectrum, Asperger's he said. Asperger's =/= gullible. It doesn't mean stupid, either.

and this. This is a spectacularly colorful wordslaw:

"The acuity of the vulnerable
Defendant has waned
with each passing day[--]
solitary confinement[--]
The effects of same, like ivy,
have slept, crept, and now leapt."

Uh, The gullible defendant's mental sharpness has faded in solitary, and the effect of solitary confinement ...has turned him into a sleepy, leepy, creepy plant?? Snake?? Remorseful idiot? Paranoid schizophrenic?

[Dale in Laurel MD]

8. An Aspy here....

I am on the spectrum, and I have no sympathy for using it as an excuse. He didn't commit crimes because he's on the spectrum (even assuming that to be true). He committed crimes because he's a criminal.

Likewise a couple of people I know who are on a shamanic path have no use for him: all cosplay with no dedication or discipline.

[Claire Oh Nette]

10. Throwing up all kinds of things

in hopes a jury will see him as insane, but the attorney isn't claiming insanity.

The fact that his attorney is changing his tune daily and conflating all sorts of lifestyle choices (organic food, shamanism, hat fetish, clown affinity...) seems to be a smoke screen for dude committed crimes of his own volition.

Lock his ass up.

[Marrah_Goodman]

14. My son has aspergers

He is easily manipluated, but even he would never have fallen for this stupidity.

[tblue37]

9. His "flagpole" was a freaking *spear*!

[NBachers]

11. Vulnerabilities Shmulnerabilities He wasn't a delicate little melting snowflake when he committed

Treason in the Capitol, or until he got caught and put in jail.

[Bev54]

12. I did not know that they have now classified stupidity as a mental illness.

[Marrah_Goodman]

13. Your client being a dumbass is not a defense.

Don't they cover this in law school?

[Takket]

15. that's the kind of defense a lawyer goes for when he knows his client is guilty as sin and

there is no prayer of defending him on the fact of the case.

[Botany]

16. Either "horn boy'" lawyer is really bad or he is trying..

... to poison the jury pool.

I think the judge is about to smack him down big time.