can you prove he is sane? when he has diagnosis out there and he acted in a fashion that would be commensurate with vinding of insanity. so what he did planning, that is not the whole equation. you know very well that there s a major difference between legal insanity and clinical insanity. absolutely. there are lots of mentally ill people walking around with a diagnosis of mental illness. that doesn t mean hair legally insane. and he is going to be very easy to prove he was sane at the time of the homicide. isn t it true, ann, we could all assume as citizens of this country that anybody who did something like this, anybody who does these mass shoot sgz mentally ill the way we define it. as a court would define it, isn t the burden for that a lot higher? well, the bottom line is in colorado it s one of the easiest defenses to prove which is you don t have the two part test which which is hard to show insanity. he has been shown to be insane. the fact is the prosecutors can t p
and by the way, most killers who commit crimes like this have an element of mental illness. i mean as a matter of fact, they would all be going to mental hospitals if they got off because they color their hair red and act strangely. this is a case, however, you can t make out insanity. because of the meticulous planning that went into the homicide. so i think prosecutors are going to win this case. you know, the thing is also it s not what i was going to say also, it s not just in sanity of the trial, you re not going to kill a mentally ill person. in the death penalty phase, mitigation and everything else, you have two things to get over as a prosecutor. also this is colorado. they have the burden of proof. can you prove he is sane? when he has diagnosis out there and he acted in a fashion that would be commensurate with a finding of insanity. so what he did planning, that is not the whole equation. you know very well that there s a major difference between legal insanity and clin
element of mental illness. i mean as a matter of fact, they would all be going to mental hospitals if they got off because they color their hair red and act strangely. this is a case, however, you can t make out insanity. because of the meticulous planning that went into the homicide. so i think prosecutors are going to win this case. you know, the thing is also it s not what i was going to say also, it s not just in sanity of the trial, you re not going to kill a mentally ill person. in the death penalty phase, mitigation and everything else, you have two things to get over as a prosecutor. also this is colorado. they have the burden of proof. can you prove he is sane? when he has diagnosis out there and he acted in a fashion that would be commensurate with vinding of insanity. so what he did planning, that is not the whole equation. you know very well that there s a major difference between legal insanity and clinical insanity. absolutely. there are lots of mentally ill peopl