05-14-2014, 04:58 PM
POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF PSYCH EVAL
Here's a good analysis of how the psychiatric testing results could positively or negatively impact either the prosecution or the defense, depending on the test results.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/oscar-pisto...34690.html
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Nel must be confident that the "anxiety disorder" claim is bullshit and that psychiatrists who are not commissioned defense witnesses will see through it.
If he's wrong and Pistorius is found to have a psychiatric disorder which caused him to kill Reeva, Pistorius cannot be held criminally responsible for her death and the trial ends. Pistorius would be committed to a psychiatric facility until he no longer presents a threat to society -- which could be 3 days or 3 weeks or 3 years or 3 decades...impossible to tell.
Since Dr. Vorster already testified that Pistorius' disorder didn't prevent him from knowing right from wrong, it's reportedly unlikely that a psych team will deem that his disorder, if they conclude that he has one, was so severe that it caused him to kill Reeva. But, it is possible.
Judge Masipa will instead likely use the test results in her verdict deliberations and in determining Pistorius' sentencing if he's convicted.
This all makes me nervous.
(HOTD edit 5 / 14 pm: corrections)
Here's a good analysis of how the psychiatric testing results could positively or negatively impact either the prosecution or the defense, depending on the test results.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/oscar-pisto...34690.html
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Nel must be confident that the "anxiety disorder" claim is bullshit and that psychiatrists who are not commissioned defense witnesses will see through it.
If he's wrong and Pistorius is found to have a psychiatric disorder which caused him to kill Reeva, Pistorius cannot be held criminally responsible for her death and the trial ends. Pistorius would be committed to a psychiatric facility until he no longer presents a threat to society -- which could be 3 days or 3 weeks or 3 years or 3 decades...impossible to tell.
Since Dr. Vorster already testified that Pistorius' disorder didn't prevent him from knowing right from wrong, it's reportedly unlikely that a psych team will deem that his disorder, if they conclude that he has one, was so severe that it caused him to kill Reeva. But, it is possible.
Judge Masipa will instead likely use the test results in her verdict deliberations and in determining Pistorius' sentencing if he's convicted.
This all makes me nervous.
(HOTD edit 5 / 14 pm: corrections)