The verdict is expected Friday in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik, the man who killed 77 people in a bomb attack and gun rampage in Norway just over a year ago.
Breivik is charged with voluntary homicide and committing acts of terror over the attacks in Oslo and Utoya Island on July 22, 2011.
The issue of Breivik's sanity, on which mental health experts have given conflicting opinions, will be central to the court's ruling.
Breivik, who boasts of being an ultranationalist who killed his victims to fight multiculturalism in Norway, wants to be ruled sane and says he acted out of "necessity."
Prosecutors have asked that Breivik be acquitted on the grounds of insanity, in which case he would be held in a secure mental health unit.
The 10-week trial wrapped up in June, when the panel of judges set a date of August 24 for their verdict to be announced.
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