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? asked in Politics & GovernmentLaw & Ethics · 4 years ago

What do you think about this? US citizen steals plane to fly to Cuba to request asylum in protest and loses control of plane and crashes.?

Carl Blais was imprisoned for 5 years in Virginia after plea agreement for a charge that was transferred from a Florida court to a Virginia court after being sentenced to a separate year for an unrelated charge in the same court.

Blais later learned that the Florida prosecutors dismissed the Florida charge before he plead to that same charge in Virginia.

There was some sort of confusion on part of the Virginia prosecutor who made this plea agreement with Blais in 2001 after a plea for another unrelated charge in the same Alexandria, Virginia court. Blais and apparently the Virginia prosecutor did not know that that a Saint John's County Florida State's Attorney's Office already null prossed the Florida threatening telephone calls charge previously.

In 2011 Blais finished serving time in Virginia probation violation based on this dismissed St John's County Florida threatening telephone calls charge.

As a result Blais held a grudge against the legal system because of this perceived injustice and that led to him trying to steal an airplane in 2011 to flee to Cuba to request asylum

Blais lost control of the plane on the ground while turning it to refuel it and crashed it because of using too much throttle.

Blais argued that he suffered PTSD as a result of the unjust sentence in Virginia as his legal defense for charges of grand theft and prosecutors decided on an insanity plea.

Blais spent a year in the state hospital for this charge in Palm Beach County, Florida.

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  • 4 years ago

    They plead insanity and spend whatever is left of their life in a psychiatric treatment facility.

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