Doc Will Testify To 'Cannibal Cop' Sanity: Report

Gilberto Valle, will have his day in court soon, and in a surprising twist, his own lawyers plan to have a doctor testify that he is not in any way insane.

At least, that's according to a report in Tuesday's New York Times.

The paper got ahold of a series of court filings in which Valle's lawyers reveal that they plan to introduce testimony from Dr. Park Dietz, a California psychiatrist who has evaluated numerous high-profile defendants from Jeffrey Dahmer to Ted Kaczynski:

Dr. Dietz concluded that Officer Valle was not mentally ill, the lawyers said in a letter to prosecutors that was filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan.

But Dr. Dietz did find that Officer Valle suffered from a deviancy that involved fantasies of sexual sadism, in which he derived excitement from the imagined psychological or physical suffering of female victims.

Valle's lawyers told the Times that their client's innocence should be a foregone conclusion, given that Valle never actually carried out the heinous acts he was arrested for plotting.

One of Valle's co-conspirators was arrested last week in New Jersey.