State lawyers said that their system guarantees that defendants are held responsible for crimes, if they are not insane, and argues that the Supreme Court should not use this case to declare for the first time a constitutional right to an insanity defense. 州律师说,他们的法律系统保证被告在没有患精神病时须对犯罪行为负责,而且声称最高法院不该用这个案件破天荒地来支持精神错乱抗辩权。