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the guilty verdict in the sniper trial. eddie ray routh has been found guilty in the murder. that murder coming out about an hour and 15 minutes ago. routh pleading not guilty to the killings by reason of insanity. he s been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. having received and accepted the jury s verdict in this matter, confinement for high of in the texas department of criminal justice without the possibility of parole. now shortly after the verdict was delivered, the mother of one of the victims, chad littlefield shared her reaction. take a listen. we ve waited two years for god to get justice for us on behalf of our son. and as always, god has proved to be faithful.
heroic figures here the american sniper and one of the worst times to be on trial for this. if you are going to be guilty by insanity you would have readbacks, and the emotional verdict is that he killed this man, and he killed these men and he should be found guilty. you talked about the psychological impact, and the the attorneys have said that he dealed with the issues including post-traumatic stress disorder and the defense said so, but the pros prosecutor said that is not so, and that it was a put-on and he mew the kons knew the consequences of it and he knew what was going on. and to be not guilty by reason of insanity, you have to demonstrate that you knew the difference of right and wrong, and having dysfunctional problems is not a legal defense to what looked like a vicious murder n..
this trial, and that was to not sequester the jury. the jury was allowed to come and go every day. they were exposed to all of the news media, instructed to not pay attention to it. but michael snipes the instruction to not pay any attention to it is very different from sequestering. judges around the down trip at different times decide it s just an inhumane kind of pressure on jurors if we allow them to be out there in the world surrounded by all this media. what is your reaction to the judge s decision not to sequester this jury? it s also kind of an inhumane question to sequester them every night and take them away from life as they know it. my practice was, once the jury goes out for the verdict in a death penalty case i sequester them then. but not during the trial itself. i want to go back to charles
least in the context of this case or any other case might not be the avenue through which someone who is gripped in that psychosis psychosis, but again, the fact that this jury on these facts and the law that they were given by the judge ultimately reached the decision that they believed was the right thing to do. i want to go back to charles hadlock outside the courtroom, if we still have him there. charles, what can we expect to happen next? we have cameras set up there, microphones, attorneys. reporter: we have microphones and cameras set up. we were told by the court that someone would speak after the trial. we were also told it would not be a member of the prosecution. in fact, i asked the district attorney during the break if he would come out and speak. he said he would not at this time. so we re not sure exactly who