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Two "criminals" not going to jail because of Asperger's

Just read an article about two pretty high-profile criminals that didn't really get punished by judges because of their Asperger's diagnosis. Check this out:

Last month, a federal judge in the Pittsburgh area named Gustave Diamond refused to send a 20-year-old man convicted of building about two dozen pipe bombs to jail for any amount of time — let alone the prosecutor’s recommendation of 24 to 30 months. The chief reason? Asperger’s syndrome.

“I have no doubt that his makeup, in this case a definable disorder, led him to commit this crime,” he said, according to The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “He’s never committed an act of violence of any kind, nor has he threatened an act of violence of any kind.”

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