1.   Federal law considers a mental defect or impairment as mitigating against a death sentence.

2.   Lawyers said they would try to show that she was suffering from a mental defect because of her intense religious beliefs.

3.   Rather, they said that he was suffering from a mental defect at the time brought on by Prozac and other drugs prescribed to him.

4.   The assertion of a mental defect is not a defense in that sense.

5.   The defense initially expected to argue that mental defects prevented Kaczynski from being legally responsible for his acts.

6.   Various hates and prejudices ultimately are a moral decision, not a matter of mental defect.

7.   Defense attorneys now must prove he had a mental defect that made him unable to appreciate the wrongfulness of his actions at the time.

8.   He tried to portray the Ivy league-educated killer as a clever, intelligent faker who cooked up a mental defect defense to save his life.

9.   Lawyers drop mental defect defense strategy.

10.   The defense has attempted to build an argument that Ross suffers a mental defect rendering him unable to control his actions.