05:28 EDT, 24 December 2020
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Prosecutors argued on Friday that autism spectrum disorder cannot be used as a legal defense in the mass murder trial of a Toronto man.
Alek Minassian is on trial for the deaths of 10 people on April 23, 2018, when Minassian ran over 10 people with his van.
Minassian has confessed to the crime, so the facts of the mass murder are not in dispute.
What is in dispute, according to ABC News, is whether Minassian s diagnosed autism spectrum disorder was enough of a factor to cloud his judgment on the day of the mass murder.
This is the van Alek Minassian used to allegedly kill ten people in Toronto in April 2018