UNABOMBER WANTS TO WITHDRAW GUILTY PLEA, HAVE TRIAL, BUT HE HASN'T SAID HE DIDN'T DO IT

When Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, pleaded guilty to three murders, the nation exhaled a collective sigh of relief. But Kaczynski says he was coerced by the fact that his lawyers intended to mount a defense based on his mental condition.

Kaczynski's adamant refusal to have his psychiatric condition paraded through a public trial is now the basis of his request for a trial. In a 58-page handwritten brief, the Unabomber asks to be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea.

If nothing else, the guy is a prolific writer. Curiously, however, nowhere in those 58 pages is anything that resembles an assertion that he didn't kill people with mail bombs. So what's the point of a trial that would result in a guilty verdict?