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mmseu wim.No RecognitionO’Shea asked if her son had shown any sign of recognizing her in the courtroom. She said he had not.“Docs he seem unconcerned about the proceedings?” O’Shea asked.Assistant Dist. Atty. BlairCherry Jr. and several of the jurors turned to look at Collier. He did not look up.“He just doesn’t have any (the word was unintelligible) about it,” Mrs. Bridges replied.“Do you think your son at the present time is incompetent ?”j O’Shea asked.“Yes, sir.” said Mrs. Bridges,“I do;’.Mother Breaks DownThe mother broke down on the witness stand after she was asked the names of her children by Collier. She named the daughter, and then had trouble choking out the words “and Donald Dee Collier. Judge William R. Shaver sent the jury from the courtroom until she recovered her lt;om[osure.Cherry, in cross-examining thewitness, brought out that the| mother was basing her opinion] of Collier's sanity only on her own observation of him.He asked at one point if she knew when her son “started using drugs.” IDidn’t See Him“To be truthful, I never saw;him taking any.” she replied.Cherry asked if she knew that staring fixedly at objects was aj symptom sometimes caused by drugs. She had testified earlier that she had seen her son sit ami stare in that way.O’Shea objected lo the question and at his request Judge Shaver asked the jury not to take the reference into consideration.Another witness, Mrs. Lucille Adams of Odessa, said she often visited Collier’s family and had noticed the staring.Just Sidling“I’d just call that sulling,” shesaid.Collier’s stepfather, Bridges,I 1
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Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Lubbock, Texas, US
Wed, Nov 13, 1968
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