Closing arguments are scheduled to take place on Friday in the trial of a mentally ill man who carried out a deadly shooting at a Colorado supermarket in 2021. The defendant, who has been identified as having schizophrenia, has entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity for the attack that claimed the lives of 10 individuals in Boulder.
It is important to note that mental illness and legal insanity are distinct concepts. In Colorado, insanity is defined as a mental disease so severe that it renders an individual incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong.
