The attorneys asked the judge to rule parts of the state's insanity defense laws unconstitutional.
Do you have some threshold constitutional right to make some kind of insanity defense?
And then four states, as I said, have gone ahead and abolished this insanity defense altogether.
They argue that Malvo was influenced by Muhammad and are using an insanity defense.
Arizona happens to be one of the many states that has really limited the insanity defense in several ways.
Earlier this month, Holmes' lawyers tried to have Colorado's insanity defense laws changed.
Juries in Alabama have exhibited a notable distaste for the insanity defense.
He's pursuing an insanity defense, which means jurors must decide whether he understood the consequences of his actions enough to be held criminally responsible.
Salvi's lawyer says he plans an insanity defense, but those who witnessed the shootings -- and the victims' families -- say it was pre-meditated murder.
His lawyers initially sought an insanity defense but later dropped that approach and argued their client didn't fully grasp the ramifications of what he did, according to John Hall, the district attorney's spokesman.
This is going to be really significant, because some states have abolished the insanity defense altogether, and different states have very, very narrow versions of what it is to be insane as a legal matter.
Nor is a diagnosis an insanity defense.
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The jury later rejected Yates' insanity defense.
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"Colorado's statutory scheme regarding the affirmative defense of insanity, and the introduction of any 'mental condition' evidence at trial or sentencing, is unconstitutional in many individual respects, " they wrote in a 60-page motion and brief filed Thursday.
Herod's political skill in transferring his loyalty from the dead Mark Antony to his archrival, and later securing Rome's defense for embattled diaspora Jews, calls into question his reputed insanity.
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The judge entered a not guilty plea on Holmes' behalf but said the defense could ask to change that to not guilty by reason of insanity if Holmes chooses.
Last week, defense attorneys publicly acknowledged for the first time that they were considering an insanity plea.
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