As a criminal defense attorney, and I'm talking about the Commonwealth right now, actually, but I mean, as an attorney in the courtroom, how cognizant do you have to be of potentially losing the jury with these witnesses, particularly one who are psychiatrists and drone on a little bit? And do they have to go through every exhibit, Peter?

First of all, I've yeah, I always thought that worked against you.

You drone on and on and get repetitious.

The jury has been there for weeks now and they really would like to see things move along.

I mean, you do have an obligation to present all the evidence.

But if a jury sees, for example, there are some lawyers who will cross examine somebody immediately.

for with like 10 questions and another saint another lawyer will cross-examine that same person for three or four hours and i'll say why go on and endlessly ask questions that you know don't seem to have anything to do with anything and then that lawyer might say to me and this would not be my style would say well i i want to ask everything under the sun see if anything sticks And my style has always been the difference, get in and out like a bullet.

What happens then?

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Well, as we all know, the conventional wisdom is the insanity defense rarely, rarely wins.

Juries normally do not like it, and I think maybe everybody got thrown off when it worked for, uh, John Hinckley a few, uh, decades ago when he, uh, shot President Reagan, um, and the Washington, DC jury there, um, did find him, um, not guilty by reason of insanity This case, I think, might have more of a shot with, for the defense than normally is an insanity defense type case.

And that is why, um, the, the defense, though, has to kind of educate the jury a little bit about this.

Since we're not saying who did what wrong, uh, as in almost every trial, it's, uh, uh, you know, did, can you prove she did the murder? Can you prove he stole the money? That, um, Kevin Reddington was smart to concede that, and we're not debating anything, so let's move on to the issue, was she responsible or not? And one of the problems that the jury always has is that when they think about insanity, they want somebody sitting in a corner babbling, drooling, frothing at the mouth, uh, foaming at the mouth, and just totally whacked out, you know, a- a- absolutely out of it.

And they can be educated.

There is, are experts who will say that, no, you can do planning.

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