In July this year, the 22-year-old Afghan man, who stabbed seven people in Vetlanda, was sentenced to, among other things, life imprisonment by Eksjö District Court.
When the verdict is now up in the Göta Court of Appeal, the defense wants, among other things, that the sentence be tried.
- We question whether it should be a life sentence or a fixed-term sentence, says Andreas Grudemo, the man's lawyer.
District Attorney Adam Rullman believes that the number of crimes, a total of seven attacks, speaks for life.
Hear defenders and prosecutors in the clip above
Could have killed people
It was on March 3 this year that seven men were attacked in various places in central Vetlanda and for four of them the condition was directly life-threatening.
According to the district court, there was a concrete danger that each of the men would die.
The man has not been judged by the Forensic Medicine Agency to suffer from any serious mental disorder at the time of the act.
The perpetrator told the district court about three of the attacks, but did not remember the other attacks.
Simpler Court of Appeal process
The hearing in the Göta Court of Appeal starts on Friday and will last for two days.
Unlike in the district court, the seven plaintiffs will not be heard again, but the hearings from the district court will be played.