The trial promises to be as much a spectacle as the preceding manhunt. Prosecutors, confident of a conviction and seeking the death penalty, have turned down a deal in which the mathematician-turned-hermit would plead guilty and serve life without parole.
The bedraggled defense team, meanwhile, may now offer a "stealth" psychiatric defense. By emphasizing the most bizarre aspects of their client's life and alleged bombing campaign -- even putting Kaczynski himself on the stand -- they will be priming jurors to believe what the accused has forbidden his lawyers from claiming aloud: that Theodore Kaczynski is insane.