article_snippet.sent: A 33-year-old woman on trial for having sex with a male inmate at Washing County Jail six times over four months while working as a services technician cried in court Wednesday as a judge rejected a judge request to use an insanity defense.
article_snippet.sent: an inmate will now stand trial next week on 12 charges related to sexual misconduct and official misconduct, on allegations that she let a male inmate at Washington County Jail out of an inmate cell multiple times and engaging in sex acts between March and July last year.
article_snippet.sent: However at a motion hearing, Circuit Judge Andrew Erwin ruled the evidence was insufficient and that an inmate would have to go to trial on April 28 without it.
article_snippet.sent: a judge went in favor of the prosecution, who said a psychologists report should have been filed as evidence last year if the defense were going to argue insanity.
article_snippet.sent: Defense denied: A judge ruled Wednesday that attorneys for Brett Robinson, 33, waited too long to file an insanity defense, ruling evidence that she was suffering from mental illness when she engaged in sex acts with a prison inmate last year as insufficient .
article_snippet.sent: State law says that defendants should file notice regarding evidence of mental disease or defect when defendants plead not guilty, Oregon Live reported.
article_snippet.sent: a judge said the defense filing it on April 10 was 'untimely' and that a judge didn't want to delay the trial.
article_snippet.sent: The prosecution is fighting against an inmate using the insanity defense.
article_snippet.sent: A probation officer who conducted a pre-sentencing investigation had recommended a prison sentence of less than two years, which the defense asked Judge Bailey to impose.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Bailey went above the state's recommendation when sentencing Jill Curry.
highlights_snippet.sent: an inmate ruled Wednesday that an inmate's lawyers waited too long to file an insanity defense earlier this month, with she trial set to start next week .
  