Does The Fact That My Brother Has Autism Be Relevant In Court?

[Cindy1302]

My brother has been charged with two misdemeanors. First offense. He has a lawyer, and our mom mentioned to the lawyer that my brother has autism so my brothers doctor wrote a letter, and he sent it to his lawyer, so he could show it to the court. My brother could be facing up to a year in jail. He does have trouble communicating, and reading non verbal signals. Other than that, you wouldn't really guess he's autistic. I'm just not sure it's relevant, but his lawyer seems to think it is. We are in the US. Specially Oregon.

[Canary42]

This is a UK site, so not likely to meet your requirements. But lawyer should know surely (unless he's jut after your money of course).

[barry1010]

I assume he passed his driving test and was licensed and insured to drive, so he should be capable of knowing it is wrong to deliberately drive in to another car. His autism isn't really relevant 

[Buenchico]

Google's AI feature is far from perfect but, for what it's worth, here's what it comes up with:
https://i.postimg.cc/nrWKh7Kz/Oregon-AI.jpg

[newmodarmy]

Is it this incident?

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Family/Question1875312.html

[Peter Pedant]

yes it is relvant - let your brother's lawyer sort it out. No I know nothing of oregan law