Ladies and gentleman of the jury I will be defending my client, John Doe, on the basis of insanity on the murder of his mentor, Jack Ryan. This unfortunate loss was due to the defendant suffocating his boss with a mattress because he believed that the victim’s right eye was evil and in his own words a “vulture eye”. My client felt scared of this eye as well as being furious towards the eye, too. This tragic accident happened on Friday October 13 around 1:00 A.M. The defendant shouldn’t be charged with murder because he suffers from hearing imaginary voices, he believes a simple gesture of kindness might make him die and he has no control over his actions. In the report it clearly states that my client can hear the supernatural. It is proven in my client’s interrogation when he says, “It grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder every instant. The old man's terror must have been extreme”(3). This implies that my client believes that he can hear things that aren’t physically there but really he's just hearing voices in his head and that is making him insane. This also shows that he is clearly hearing his own heart but is so schizophrenic and crazy he thinks he is hearing the victim's …show more content…
This statement is proven in the interview when the defendant yelled, “Almighty God! --no,no! They heard! --they suspected! -- they knew! --they were making a mockery of my horror”(5). This quote proves that my client is insane because he will talk to himself and that is sometimes a sign of a mental disease. The quote also shows that he thinks he can figure out what everyone thinking by hear inside people’s head. Because of that, he thinks he was absolutely sure that he knew what the police were thinking and started to freak out. Finally, this shows that my client is insane and or mental ill because he shows patterns and symptoms of people who are mentally