Dr. Casey Jordan

So under the new law, that's how Dennis is now eligible for parole.

And you can imagine how Amanda's family feels about this.

I suspect that they will be at every parole hearing, making sure that they lodge their protest to this.

I'm very open to new findings, progressive findings in brain health and neuroscience.

However, I am fundamentally, after studying hundreds of crimes and defending people on mental health defenses, I have to tell you that I'm essentially a choice theorist.

That above a certain age, unless you are intellectually disabled, you know right from wrong.

And I would argue, you know, from the time you're seven, you know right from wrong.

And then it's kind of like this trajectory of how much you do understand the complexity of right and wrong.

But I would argue that a 20-year-old knows right from wrong.

I actually think that from age 18, everyone should be treated as an adult.

I'm not a fan of this new law, to be honest.

And I think it sends the wrong message.

20-year-olds are not children.

They know right from wrong.

And if it had just been...

A few months in the future, life in prison would have stuck.

Criminal Appeal with Dr. Casey Jordan.

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