The prosecution rested its case in the trial of Aron and Tamara Nichols Sorenson today.
Nichols is charged with the murder of Donald and Alice Willey last April.
Sorenson is considered an accomplice.
Jim Olson reports of the Nichols defense tries to prove that he is not mentally capable of understanding the crime …
(Jim Olson, KX News) For the first time in two weeks processes jurors heard a witness say Aron Nichols was of the house of Donald and Alice Willey on the night of his death.
(Dr. Stephen Podrygula, psychologist) “He said not to forget what happened during the incident and gave me something different accounts, either at the residence of Willey, but said not to forget this which came after he in the house. But he acknowledged, it was clear that.
(Jim Olson, KX News), Dr Stephen Podrygula, almost twenty hours of the evaluation of IPR Nichols, was the only defense witness Nichols. He said Nichols told her that he had no more remember what he did while he Willey’s at home. But before it adopted the position Podrygula, Nichols’ lawyer, Robert Martin, has a half-six minutes, and an opening statement.
(Robert Martin, Nichols’ lawyer) “On Friday, it was clear that the evidence of the legal profession of faith contrary to the script. They had an indication that something not quite in Sinc here.
(Jim Olson, KX News) Martin gently corrects the media, which I said, it could be argued as a folly of Defence say that there is no such protection. But he did tell jurors he must show his client a decline in intellectual performance and capacity of extreme emotional distress.
(Robert Martin, Nichols’ lawyer), “If we consider the evidence is sufficient, the costs to the state for that crime was committed by my client, you will still considering whether or not he was capable of reqired intent, and then consider whether or not he is acting under extreme emotional despair at the time of the alleged act. ”
(Jim Olson, KX News) And finally, the state challenged Martin’s main argument.
(Robert Martin, Nichols’ lawyer), “The state has told us that this matter is fully controlled. Pretend I, the proceedings against my client is based on a lack of control.
(Jim Olson, KX News) Dr. Podrygula can testify that his assessment Nichols was sometimes frightening.
(Dr. Stephen Podrygula, psychologist) “I have worked in thousands of cases with a large number of people in difficult situations, and I would like to think like a very strong and courageous … kind of type I afraid. ” There was a strong element of hostility, real volatility. ”
(Jim Olson, KX News) A psychologist in accordance with the rule of the expert, that Nichols was criminally responsible for the Willeys’ death.
(Dr. Stephen Podrygula, psychologist) “I think it was probably criminally responsible. This is not, as he did not know what he was doing. ”
(Jim Olson, KX News), but said Podrygula Nichols suffered from extreme emotional disturbance at the time of the crime, using all three things: a general paranoia, a belief that the girl Tamara Sorenson had been sexually abused in Willeys, or Who something could be spent when it Willeys on the homepage on the night of April 6.
(Dr. Stephen Podrygula, psychologist) “The third possibility is that something happens at home, and he responds quite disproportionate.”
(Jim Olson, KX News), but prosecutors to rebut the evidence used at each of the three possible causes, in part, is to be noted Nichols planning for the crime.
(Voice: John Beyer, Attorney), “You are simply saying that it is a possibility? (Dr. Stephen Podrygula, psychologist)” It’s OK. ”
(Jim Olson, KX News) It is possible to be done at the end in the hands of the jury Wednesday. In Devils Lake, Jim Olson, KX News.