Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik should be declared sane and allowed to take responsibility for his actions, his lawyer told a court today.
He objected to the prosecution request to declare him criminally insane.
Mr Breivik has confessed to killing 77 people in a shooting and bombing rampage last July.
If judged to be insane, he would likely be committed to a mental institution instead of a prison.
On 22 July last year, Mr Breivik detonated a bomb outside government headquarters in Oslo, killing eight people.
He then gunned down 69 people, many of them teenagers, at a summer camp run by the ruling Labour Party on the island of Utoeya.
It was Norway's worst peacetime massacre.
A first psychiatric report found Anders Behring Breivik to be a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic.
A second, by a different team, concluded that he was most likely suffering from a narcissistic personality disorder but was not psychotic, and was therefore legally sane.
