By Andrea Swalec, DNAInfo Reporter/Producer MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — The man charged with gunning down a gay man in a vicious Greenwich Village hate crime this spring may plead not guilty by reason of insanity, his attorney said Tuesday. Elliot Morales, who is accused of fatally shooting 32-year-old Mark Carson at Sixth Avenue and West Eighth Street on May 18, appeared in Manhattan Supreme Court Tuesday afternoon, when court-appointed defense lawyer Kevin Canfield served notice that he intends to present psychiatric evidence at trial. "It could be temporary insanity," Canfield told reporters, declining to describe Morales' reported mental state at the time of the alleged crime. It was not...
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