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Prosecutors say a woman accused of stabbing a stranger and piercing her heart while she was shopping in Toronto two weeks before Christmas in 2015 should not be held criminally responsible.

They have filed an application with Ontario Superior Court to begin the process of trying to have Rohinie Bisesar committed to a psychiatric facility.

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“There are reasonable grounds to doubt that (Bisesar) is criminally responsible for the murder on account of mental disorder,” the Crown wrote in the application to have her mental health assessed.

Justice John McMahon has said he also plans to raise the issue of a psychiatric assessment in his own motion after he received two letters from the alleged murderer.

It’s a move usually made by the defence, but Bisesar has said she intends to fight any attempt to have her declared mentally ill.

She has already fired two lawyers appointed to her case and says she may represent herself if she cannot find a lawyer who considers her trial a matter of “national security.”