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Negative portrayal on TV and discrimination

Robert124

Last night I was watching a documentary on C5 about the Rachel Nickel murder.  They made a clear comment that the actual killer, Robert Napper, had Asperger's syndrome.  Was that necessary?  Is it discrimination?  If they had talked about his race, religion, nationality or skin colour, there would have been an uproar.

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  • The one time I'm aware of where autism was used as a defence in a murder trial related to a young man who, for the entirety of the trial, sat quietly and read a book. The appeals court ruled the judge should have instructed the jury to disregard the mans odd behaviour in court as being related to his autism. I can't recall if they gave they a retrial or not but their did criticise the first trials judge.

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  • The one time I'm aware of where autism was used as a defence in a murder trial related to a young man who, for the entirety of the trial, sat quietly and read a book. The appeals court ruled the judge should have instructed the jury to disregard the mans odd behaviour in court as being related to his autism. I can't recall if they gave they a retrial or not but their did criticise the first trials judge.

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