I don't know why people keep bringing up an insanity plea.
It comes up in a really retarded way but Chris's mental health is obviously relevant and material. It's pretty obvious it's going to come up, even if the odds of an actual successful insanity defense are near zero. It should also be noted that it's his mental state at the time of the crime and not now that he's deteriorated that is relevant as to guilt. It's possible that fat boy's gone nutzoid enough not to be fit for trial, but that would be just a delay until he could be pumped full of pills enough not to lose his shit during trial.
Virginia's general rule is the guilt phase jury also hears the sentencing phase, so if it goes to trial, the defense seriously doesn't want a jury who has heard a bunch of argument about Chris not being guilty now hearing, for the first time, that well, okay, he did do it but he's bugfuck!
So there will not, in all likelihood, be a full "insanity defense," but Chris's mental health issues can't be avoided and won't be by any competent defense. That said, if you actually do see a straight "insanity defense," this is the defense more or less admitting Chris is absolutely FUCKED.
Something you have to remember in any criminal case is the state carries the most immensely heavy burden in any legal dispute, the "beyond a reasonable doubt" burden. However, making an insanity defense shifts that burden to the defendant. It is what is called an affirmative defense, meaning it essentially admits to the criminal act but challenges the mens rea, the mental aspect also needed to complete the crime. However, the defendant now has the burden of proving insanity.
In many jurisdictions (Virginia is a confuzzlement because its insanity defense is based on fairly muddled case law), the burden isn't even a fairly easy burden like preponderance, but "clear and convincing."
So a defendant opting for this defense is wandering into a thorny thicket, abandoning the defendant-friendly "beyond a reasonable doubt" burden, and opting for an affirmative defense that in practice is nearly impossible to plead successfully.
With Luck he'll be practically cationic by the time November 18th rolls around.
Lmao wot, he's going to be a quaternary ammonium compound?
But that's the whole point of rape.