11-04-2012, 07:15 AM
[My note]: While it is a matter of semantics IMHO that anyone who kills 77 persons and would have liked to have killed many thousands more can be called 'sane', I welcome this development - as he will now when sentenced [if sentenced under full mental capacity] go to prison and not to a psychiatric hospital - it is good and it is bad; it will tear the Norwegian society and legal system into bits...but for the good IMO.
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Behring Breivik declared sane
(With new material) A report by the new court-appointed psychiatrists on the mental state of confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik has found him to be sane when he carried out his terrorist act on July 22nd last year.
The conclusions in the report by psychiatrists Terje Tørrisen and Agnar Aspaas are therefore the opposite of the conclusion made by the two first psychiatrists, which declared Behring Breivik criminally insane.
A press release by the Oslo City Court (Tingretten) on Tuesday states that the two new court-appointed psychiatrists had concluded that Behring Breivik was not psychotic when he bombed Norway's government office building on July 22, followed by the massacre at the Utøya Labour Party youth camp the same day.
However, it is the City Court which in the end will decide on whether or not Behring Breivik will be declared insane or not.
According to his defense lawyer, Anders Behring Breivik is pleased with the results of the new report, but wishes he had gone even further in his attacks on July 22, 2011
Breivik is satisfied with the second report, prepared by court psychiatrists Agnar Aspaas and Terje Tørrisen, which concludes that Breivik was sane when he carried out the attacks on July 22 in Oslo and at Utøya.
Breivik considers at least 80 percent of the content in the first report false, a report which stated that he was mentally insane and paranoid schizophrenic.
"He is preparing his explanation for the trial," defense lawyer Geir Lippestad tells Aftenposten after presenting the report's conclusion to Breivik Tuesday afternoon.
Breivik will not give his explanation in a typical question and answer scenario with a defense lawyer in court, but has a strong idea of what he wants to say, says Lippestad. He will choose how to explain himself, but the defense lawyer warns that it may be challenging to listen to.
"I have been asked whether or not he will show remorse. He won't," Lippestad tells NRK, "More likely he'll state that he wishes he had gone even further." Five days have been set aside to Breivik's statement, but Lippestad worries it's not enough.
Highlights from the new report:
- Breivik was not psychotic, unconscious or mentally handicapped to any large degree at the time of the terror attacks.
- Breivik does not suffer from a psychological condition that limits him from evaluating his relation to the outside world, and his actions were not committed in a state of disturbed consciousness.
- Breivik was not psychotic at the time of the examinations.
- There is a high risk of repeated criminal offense.
- The report is based on case documents, conversations, health records and reports from three weeks of institutional observation.
- All other information in the report remains confidential.
- The conclusion was unanimous
Julie Ryland/Rolleiv Solholm
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Behring Breivik declared sane
(With new material) A report by the new court-appointed psychiatrists on the mental state of confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik has found him to be sane when he carried out his terrorist act on July 22nd last year.
The conclusions in the report by psychiatrists Terje Tørrisen and Agnar Aspaas are therefore the opposite of the conclusion made by the two first psychiatrists, which declared Behring Breivik criminally insane.
A press release by the Oslo City Court (Tingretten) on Tuesday states that the two new court-appointed psychiatrists had concluded that Behring Breivik was not psychotic when he bombed Norway's government office building on July 22, followed by the massacre at the Utøya Labour Party youth camp the same day.
However, it is the City Court which in the end will decide on whether or not Behring Breivik will be declared insane or not.
According to his defense lawyer, Anders Behring Breivik is pleased with the results of the new report, but wishes he had gone even further in his attacks on July 22, 2011
Breivik is satisfied with the second report, prepared by court psychiatrists Agnar Aspaas and Terje Tørrisen, which concludes that Breivik was sane when he carried out the attacks on July 22 in Oslo and at Utøya.
Breivik considers at least 80 percent of the content in the first report false, a report which stated that he was mentally insane and paranoid schizophrenic.
"He is preparing his explanation for the trial," defense lawyer Geir Lippestad tells Aftenposten after presenting the report's conclusion to Breivik Tuesday afternoon.
Breivik will not give his explanation in a typical question and answer scenario with a defense lawyer in court, but has a strong idea of what he wants to say, says Lippestad. He will choose how to explain himself, but the defense lawyer warns that it may be challenging to listen to.
"I have been asked whether or not he will show remorse. He won't," Lippestad tells NRK, "More likely he'll state that he wishes he had gone even further." Five days have been set aside to Breivik's statement, but Lippestad worries it's not enough.
Highlights from the new report:
- Breivik was not psychotic, unconscious or mentally handicapped to any large degree at the time of the terror attacks.
- Breivik does not suffer from a psychological condition that limits him from evaluating his relation to the outside world, and his actions were not committed in a state of disturbed consciousness.
- Breivik was not psychotic at the time of the examinations.
- There is a high risk of repeated criminal offense.
- The report is based on case documents, conversations, health records and reports from three weeks of institutional observation.
- All other information in the report remains confidential.
- The conclusion was unanimous
Julie Ryland/Rolleiv Solholm
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