After weeks and weeks of testimony, this was the final chance for Alek Minassian’s lawyer to argue the mass killer shouldn’t spend the rest of his life in prison.
Instead, he should be found not criminally responsible for killing 10 people and injuring 16 others due to his autism spectrum disorder.
The Crown’s key expert, Dr. Scott Woodside, rejected that theory and maintained Minassian not only clearly understood the moral wrongfulness of his plan but that was the whole point — he admitted to wanting to achieve infamy by causing the most moral outrage in society.
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