Holmes could also simply pleadinnocent, and he wouldn't have to give prosecutors potentially incriminating medical records and statements made to doctors.
Defence solicitors have said the proposals are unworkable and will create the possibility that innocent people will plead guilty because they cannot afford to go to trial.
The defense then compounds that with a "conspiracy theory" of its own: that the government is allegedly pressuring innocent men to plead guilty and testify for the prosecution, in order to lessen their own sentences.