Insanity plea
Routh pleads not guilty by reason of insanity in his trial for the shooting deaths of Kyle and Littlefield. Routh’s lawyer:
He thought in his mind, at that point in time, that it was either him or them, that he had to take their lives because, in his psychosis, he was thinking they were going to take his. You will find that at the time of this tragic event, this tragic occurrence, that Eddie Routh was insane.