Kansas statute complicates case for insanity
The Kansas Legislature in 1995 abolished the traditional insanity defense. The current statute requires Kahler to show he lacked the mental state required in elements of the crimes he is charged with as a result of a mental disease or defect.
Evidence introduced during trial that could hurt Kahler’s defense in terms of the crime being intentional and premeditated has included:
Before the shootings, he withdrew a large amount of cash from the bank.
The defendant’s vehicle was loaded with a suitcase, trash bags filled with outdoor survival gear and canned goods, and a hiking backpack filled with supplies such as soap, lotion, hand towels, toilet paper, cotton balls, beef jerky, a compass and trail mix.
“I might go out in a blaze of glory,” Kris Kahler, 46, recalled his brother saying.
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2011/aug/24/kansas-statute-complicates-case-for-insanity/
The Kansas Legislature in 1995 abolished the traditional insanity defense. The current statute requires Kahler to show he lacked the mental state required in elements of the crimes he is charged with as a result of a mental disease or defect.
Evidence introduced during trial that could hurt Kahler’s defense in terms of the crime being intentional and premeditated has included:
Before the shootings, he withdrew a large amount of cash from the bank.
The defendant’s vehicle was loaded with a suitcase, trash bags filled with outdoor survival gear and canned goods, and a hiking backpack filled with supplies such as soap, lotion, hand towels, toilet paper, cotton balls, beef jerky, a compass and trail mix.
“I might go out in a blaze of glory,” Kris Kahler, 46, recalled his brother saying.
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2011/aug/24/kansas-statute-complicates-case-for-insanity/