Greenspon said defence lawyers are likely to have Magnotta examined by a forensic psychiatrist. The Crown will be entitled to do the same thing.
Theyll look at his behaviour look at all of his behaviour, he said. Theyll try to go back to the time when the alleged murder took place and see if, based on the behaviour leading up to that and since, a psychiatrist could conclude he was suffering from a mental disorder.
Psychiatrists could be faced with some difficult contradictions in the Magnotta case. The nature of the alleged crime is so horrific that it offers some evidence of mental illness, but Magnottas deliberate escape from Montreal also suggests he appreciated the consequences of those actions.
In 2009, computer software engineer Vince Li was found not criminally responsible for beheading a man on a Greyhound bus near Portage la Prairie, Man. A psychiatrist testified that Li suffered from undiagnosed schizophrenia at the time and believed that God was telling him to execute Tim McLean to save the Earth from aliens
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