vermontsavant wrote:
it is unliklely he will serve jail,even though he could.if your eligible for a 5 year felony you would still likely get probation.
in most cases you would need to commit a violent felony by robbery,or knife, mace wont draw jail time autistic or not if your record is fairly clean.the courts are to overwhelmed for silly antics and what not
He'll almost certainly be able to play autism as a card he can use to get out of it as well, because I doubt the judge will know or care too much about it...
(Somebody tried that with a murder case in Scotland, didn't go down too well the victim's family. Didn't work with judge either thankfully, but on a comparatively low-level case he could probably get away with it.)