Captain Pablo said:
Exactly. And I made that point above.
I haven't looked up the particulars, but I suspect that he was charged separately on purpose
because of concerns that he might be acquitted due to insanity. You get the same matter in front of multiple juries. Perhaps they tried him for the murder first and then charged him with the assaults after the acquittal in the hopes of him being held criminally responsible for something, as opposed to nothing.
You could make the argument that multiple bites at the apple like that shouldn't be allowed, but it's not terribly uncommon for every known crime not to be charged. Alternatively, he could have been tried for all the crimes at once, risking an acquittal on all grounds.
Now, if the same jury somehow decided that the murdering was insane but the aggravated assaults committed during the same incident weren't, that's inexplicable. I doubt that's what happened, though.
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