Chief Justice Wayne Martin ruled staff would not be criminally responsible if they adhered to the quadraplegic's wishes and did not treat him or give him food and liquids.
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"There is zero closure in a verdict of notcriminallyresponsible, " said Christine Russell.
The court accepted that he carried out the crime during an acute attack of the chronic paranoid schizophrenia that he suffered and accepted that he was notcriminallyresponsible owing to his mental illness.