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"We indicated there was a psychiatric defense in the case," Mr. Rubin said yesterday.

Mr. Levine said after the hearing that he was considering raising a psychiatric defense, although he would not elaborate.

Against the advice of his lawyer, Mr. Troy refused to pursue a psychiatric defense and questioned witnesses himself.

Mr. Alexander's defense lawyer said his client had admitted to the April 25 killing and was considering a psychiatric defense.

Steven Reed, a spokesman for the district attorney's office, would not comment on the possibility of a psychiatric defense.

Mr. Naiburg said his client has bipolar disorder and there would be "some sort of psychiatric defense".

They said he cooperated with defense psychiatric experts for a time because he was firmly convinced that they would find he had no psychiatric problems.

The party that has the most interest in conducting a psychiatric exam - namely the defense - is not permitted to initiate such an examination under Chinese law; all the defense can ask for is a re-evaluation only after the prosecution conducts one.

Radical Islamist Mohammed Bouyeri, who had been promptly arrested for the murder, refused all legal defense (including psychiatric consideration) and demanded that he be held fully accountable for van Gogh's death.

In the 13-page motion, prosecutors said the defense's psychiatric expert, Dr. Stephen Xenakis, ignored the teen's allegedly increasingly violent communications in the months before his arrest last October, including writings and drawings glorifying Islamic State's jihad against "infidels".

Hubert might mount an insanity defense, but two psychiatric evaluations concluded that he was competent for trial.