Yes, that’s what I said: Michael was found Not Guilty for all charges associated with Rob. I’m not sure how you don’t understand that - you quoted my post right there.
Seems we want to ignore the gun charges that he should have been found guilty for if the jury felt the burden was met for “attempted murder” and believed he brought the gun.
The defense met its burden of establishing that MB was insane at the time he shot LK.
It would only be a slam dunk guilty verdict if there were no evidence that MB was insane.
The criminal jury did not determine the cause of his insanity. The civil jury will not determine the cause of his insanity, either.
The defense in the civil suit has said that part of MBs defense will be that LK knew, or should have known, how mentally fragile MB was. However, LK knowing MBs mental condition and LK causing MBs mental condition are very different things.
They found that the prosecution met the burden of proof for both the attempted murder and the gun charges with respect to Lauren. Then they deemed Michael insane for both of those charges, so the final verdict for the two charges involving Lauren were NGRI and NGRI.
But not RG. The gun charge was the same, mere possession of it should have triggered a guilty of at least 10 years or so we’ve been lectured on. At a minimum, he should have been found NGRI for RG on the possession as well, but he wasn’t. So there was reasonable doubt.
No, the gun charge was not for possession. It was for the use of the gun in the commission of the attempted murder. Since MB was found NG on the attempted murder charge with respect to RG, he was also found NG on the associated gun charge.
Likewise, MB was found NGRI on both the attempted murder charge and the associated gun charge with respect to LK.
The gun charge was possession of a firearm with the purpose to use it unlawfully against a person or property of another. Since the jury found that the prosecution did not meet the burden of proof for attempted murder/aggravated assault with respect to Rob, they couldn’t very well find him guilty of purposefully using a firearm against him. That would make no sense.