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Defense(Continued From Pane 1)Decatur depot, could in no way have been made by the defendant.“I would say the sentence structure and the wording is beyond the comprehension of the defendant,” Anderson testified. “Too many thoughts are strung together. This is not the way the defendant is able to express himself.”Anderson ,who examined the patient on two separate occasions, stated the confession contains ‘‘words which would mean different things to the defendant than would mean to a normal person.”The psychiatriststated, “Those are the thoughts and words of a person with a much higher level of intelliqence than Tommy Lee Hines,” in referring to the May 23confession.Anderson described his statement concerning the mental abilities of Hines as a “firm, solid opinion,” in court yesterday, although Moebes pointed out the psychiatrist had referred to his findings as “a partial, guarded opinion,” during the same testimonygiven last week under a detense motion to suppress which kept jurors from the courtroom for several days.Moebes, during the state’s rebuttal late Thursday afternoon, brought Dr. Edwin Conrad Seger, clinical psychologist at the Bryce Hospital Forensic Department, to the stand to testify that his examination of the defendant over a 21-day period indicated Hines may have a mental age as high as that of a 15-year-old in the area of social skills.Testimony by other prosecution witnesses on rebuttal is expected to continue today and defense attorneys for the 26-year-old mentally retarded black defendant say they hope to begin closing arguments by Friday afternoon.“The case should go the the jury by tomorrow,” Mims said outside the courtroom yesterday. “We hope and pray the jury stays out at least two hours. It will take them at least that long to weigh all the evidence. It will all be over in the morning.”
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Cullman Times Democrat
Cullman, Alabama, US
Fri, Oct 13, 1978
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