Last Updated Thursday, December 17, 2020 7:42PM EST The man who killed 10 pedestrians and wounded 16 others in the Toronto van attack in 2018 should be found not criminally responsible for his actions, his lawyer argues, because he “lacks capacity to rationally weigh the moral consequences of his actions” due to his autism spectrum disorder diagnosis. During his closing arguments at the trial for 28-year-old Alek Minassian, who has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder, defence lawyer Boris Bytensky argued that simply because his client told psychiatrists that he knew it was morally wrong to kill doesn’t mean it was a concept he truly understood.
Opinion: The question of whether the Toronto van attack suspect is criminally responsible for murder will be a matter of hearts and minds
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Closing arguments set to begin in Toronto van attack trial today
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Closing arguments underway at Toronto van attack trial today
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