Jaycee Dugard case : Garrido's mental state likely to be issue at trial

SAN FRANCISCO — In the days before his arrest, cracks showed in the elaborate facade authorities say Phillip Garrido built to conceal the girl he kidnapped, raped and imprisoned — and those cracks were of Garrido's own making.

The registered sex offender and parolee hand-delivered to the FBI's San Francisco office on Aug. 24 a screed declaring that the voices he heard came from God. The next day, he took the two daughters he had with his alleged kidnap victim to the University of California, Berkeley, where he blurted out to already suspicious campus police officers that he was a convicted rapist.

Most curiously, he showed up at his parole agent's office the day he wound up in custody with his manufactured family in tow — the two daughters, his wife and a 29-year-old woman who would be revealed as Jaycee Dugard, the girl Garrido admitted abducting in 1991 from a South Lake Tahoe bus stop.

Whether rooted in bravado, mental illness or both, his actions in the years, days and hours before his secret life was exposed raise questions about whether he subconsciously wanted to be caught. And experts say his behavior is likely to become relevant as prosecutors prepare to try Garrido and law enforcements agencies explore possible connections to unsolved sex crimes.

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Do you think Garrido will try for the insanity plea ?

I think he had 18 years to come to his senses, My opinion if he tries it should be thrown out.