The lawyer for a man who has admitted killing a New Hampshire mother and maiming her daughter in a machete and knife attack maintains he suffers personality disorders that justify a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.
During closing arguments Thursday, attorney Donna Brown is telling jurors the state's own psychiatric expert diagnosed 21-year-old Christopher Gribble as having depression, a developmental disorder and personality disorders.
Under New Hampshire law, she says, they will get to decide whether Gribble suffers from a mental disorder and whether that disorder triggered the murder of Kimberly Cates and attempted murder of Jaimie Cates in their Mont Vernon home.
Prosecutor Peter Hinckley earlier told jurors Gribble's insanity defense is an excuse to attempt to avoid a life sentence.
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The man who has admitted killing a New Hampshire mother and maiming her daughter in a machete and knife attack during a home invasion is ruthless and remorseless, but not insane, a prosecutor told jurors during his closing argument Thursday.
Christopher Gribble faces an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole if jurors reject his insanity defense and convict him of murder in the October 2009 killing of Kimberly Cates. The 21-year-old Gribble also admits trying to kill 11-year-old Jaimie Cates.
"He's saying to you, `Find me insane because I committed those crimes and I got caught,'" prosecutor Peter Hinckley told the jury. "It's nonsensical. It's ridiculous and it's not a defe
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