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INTEREST: Bleach Anime Used in Defense in New Zealand Murder Case




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Thulebox



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 1:08 am Reply with quote
Sooo if this helps the defendant gain leniency then... no more media access for people with schizophrenia? Like I'm kinda confused where they'd go in rehabilitation if watching something could trigger such a reaction for this person.
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Marimer Est



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 3:04 am Reply with quote
Weird flex, but okay.

If it was Australia, bye bye Bleach lol.
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Snomaster1
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 4:01 am Reply with quote
I've heard a lot of strange defenses in cases like these and that includes the Twinkie Defense from back in the day,but this one is one of the weirdest I've ever heard of. A schizophrenic man claims he was recreating a scene from an anime and then someone died? I'm not sure I want to imagine it if someone like him attempted to recreate a "Looney Tunes" scene. Most people would look at it and say "What the heck is this?" Rolling Eyes
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Turtleboy76



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:25 am Reply with quote
Even as a Kiwi, God this is cringe
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Minos_Kurumada



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 11:43 am Reply with quote
For those who don't get it:

The defence is not trying to demonstrate innocence, but that the guy is missing cards of the full deck.

"My defendant couldn't discern reality from fiction because schizophrenia, he thought he was in an anime, please send him to an asylum".

That's what the defence.
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Hellsoldier



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 1:31 pm Reply with quote
Minos_Kurumada wrote:
For those who don't get it:

The defence is not trying to demonstrate innocence, but that the guy is missing cards of the full deck.

"My defendant couldn't discern reality from fiction because schizophrenia, he thought he was in an anime, please send him to an asylum".

That's what the defence.


Got it. But I can imagine the moral entrepreneurs claiming this shows that anime is satanic and a danger, or something. Mark my words. Here in Portugal, we had the prime-minister's wife talking about the negative influence of Dragon Ball (and, I think, Sailor Moon) on the youth. Different countries, I know. But these types exist everywhere.
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BadNewsBlues



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 1:55 pm Reply with quote
Morbidly curious as to what scene was being acted out,
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