Psychosis, Birth Control Pills, and an ‘Oblivious’ Father
Cora Vides’s Attorneys Lay Out Insanity Defense in Attempted Murder Trial
As the attempted murder trial of Cora Vides enters its third week, defense attorneys are introducing evidence and witness testimony they say proves Vides was fully separated from reality when she stabbed her friend in the neck as the two high school seniors had a heart-to-heart conversation about their lives and their futures.
Vides is charged with first degree attempted murder, with prosecutors alleging the unprovoked attack at her family home was “willful, premeditated, and deliberate.” She has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity and faces a maximum possible sentence of 11 years to life in prison.
Vides’s attorneys argue their client’s untreated mental illnesses, exacerbated by outside stressors, are to blame for her actions that night. “Generalized psychosis, dissociative disorder, anxiety disorder, gender dysphoria — those can be comorbid factors,” defense attorney Robert Sanger said of Vides’s multiple diagnoses. “In other words, they can act together.”
