Man on Trial has Shit Eating Grin....

[Joe Guy]

Odor in the court! Bank heist suspect eats own feces on stand
The Virgin told him to, he says

Published 10:35 am, Friday, March 27, 2015

A suspected California bank robber reached into his pocket while on the witness stand, pulled out a handful of his own feces and ate them, grossing out everyone else in the courtroom.

Forty-year-old convicted sex offender Andrew Gilbertson said the Virgin Mary commanded him to eat his own excrement at his trial Wednesday in San Luis Obispo Superior Court, according to the Cal Coast News.

The revolting display of the munchies caused an uproar, and Judge Donald Umhofer called a recess.

Eating is not permitted in California courtrooms, much less eating one's own waste, divine intervention nothwithstanding.

Police say Gilbertson, of Paso Robles, robbed a Bank of America in San Luis Obispo in July 2013. Again acting on the instructions of the Mother of God, he reportedly disguised himself by wearing a hat and a pink child's backpack.

He has pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity.

A mental health expert testified that he had observed Gilbertson hitting himself in an attempt to quell the voices in his head, according to KSBY.

It appears that jurors will have to decide if Gilbertson is actually insane or going to great lengths to fake it.

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[Gob]

A mental health expert testified that he had observed Gilbertson hitting himself in an attempt to quell the voices in his head, according to KSBY.

It appears that jurors will have to decide if Gilbertson is actually insane or going to great lengths to fake it.

Sorry, do you not have forensic mental health assessments for cases like these?

[Joe Guy]

I'm pretty sure that the person who wrote the article is a clueless idiot.

[Gob]

LOL!! That's a good forensic assessment!

[MajGenl.Meade]

he reportedly disguised himself by wearing a hat and a pink child's backpack.

The man has no shame! Return the backpack to that pink child at once, sir and permit it to carry on climbing mountains vicariously!

[RayThom]

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[BoSoxGal]

A mental health expert testified that he had observed Gilbertson hitting himself in an attempt to quell the voices in his head, according to KSBY.

It appears that jurors will have to decide if Gilbertson is actually insane or going to great lengths to fake it.

Sorry, do you not have forensic mental health assessments for cases like these?

The State will have hired a whore to say he wasn't crazy and thus should be convicted, while the defense, if lucky, might have found funds to hire another whore to say he's batshit crazy. I have seen some very talented malingerers in my time, but eating excrement . . . well, if he'd rather do his time on a forensic ward than in a prison (who wouldn't?) than I supposed he's motivated to do anything it takes.

Or he has mental illness. Very, very likely - about a third of our prisoners are diagnosed, which means another third probably could be, but aren't. Treatment in the regular prison system is close to non-existent, and we've got 80,000 prisoners in solitary confinement on any given day, being driven more mad.

American Gulag.