Go to the Safety Building in the morning for a hearing. Go to the jail for a consultation. Drive to Firestone to get my car fixed. Bad waterpump. Stuck there for three hours. Walk over to Southgate Cinema. Watch “Joker” (2019). Drive to the House of Correction. Go in for a consultation. Drive home. Go to Orange Theory. Go on Facebook. Post my legal analysis of the homicides committed by the Joker in the movie.
I saw Joker today while my car was getting fixed. My legal opinion as to the homicides Joker committed in the film: The three guys Joker kills in the subway: two are done in self defense but the third guy is shot in the back at close range while in retreat. Joker does not have the privilege. Joker flees the scene. This demonstrates consciousness of guilt. Therefore no insanity defense. Joker can argue adequate provocation since the guys on the subway all attacked him first. That gets him to 2nd Degree Intentional Homicide. When Joker kills his mother in her hospital bed it is an intentional act. However, by this point in the film he is fully delusional. Joker is seeing people that are not there, cannot control his emotions, and has been off his anti-psychotic medications for some time. Insanity defense. When Joker slammed his co-worker’s head into the wall several times in front of a witness who he lets go he shows no recognition that the act was wrongful. Insanity defense. Finally, when Joker shot Robert DeNiro in the head on live television he again shows no recognition of the wrongfulness of his conduct. Insanity defense for that one too. Dark movie. Interesting legal issues though.