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Lawyers: Insanity defense is 'difficult road'

When lawyers for Esteban Carpio announced that they would pursue an insanity defense in front of a jury in their client's first-degree murder trial, attorneys in Rhode Island questioned the wisdom of that decision from the sidelines. According to the state's chief public defender, John J. Hardiman, jurors have so much trouble understanding the legal ...

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