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the way to the airport, I cannot remember that.

also a lie when Pickering said, that he missed the

knife the night before, because I picked up the knife

the morning". In answer to the court, he said: "I wil1

not say that Miss Rabsatt injured me in any way. The

scratches were not done by her, but by the bushes. I

can't remember how my finger got cut".

Members of the Jury, you will see then, that apart

from certain conditions about his school life and what

happened in St. John, by and large his evidence in court

is very much like the evidence he gave to the police a

long time ago. So for the Defence, you heard Counsel's

address. He told you this sort of consistency is

indicative of the fact that the accused is not lying,

that basically he is a witness of truth. You will

decide.

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Now lets sum it up a bit. The accused tells us that

he was a bit slow at school, and he told the specialist

psychiatrist, Dr. Mahey, the same thing. He told Dr.

Mahey about his experience in St. John. Dr. Mahey used

information that he gathered from the accused and the

accused's sister for him to assess the accused's

personality. He used that information as well as his own

observations on the spot. He watched him, he talked to

him, and he formed his opinion. He told you that he found

his vocabulary limited. He told you that he found the

accused to be rather casual about this very serious matter.

He found that he had a smile at times which struck him as

being odd.

These are some of the personal observations made

by the psychiatrist. He drew other conclusions from the

information he received and he tells you that the accused

gave him a history of having bouts of auditory and visual

hallucinations.

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