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ID: Doug Riche
IND Representative and Lawyer
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PTSD can lead to a dissociative state that precludes the ability of the patient to actually function inside of normal confines. The Survivor guilt as well causes the patient to believe that he is solely responsible for the event at hand, and blames himself in a self-destructive fashion.
There is a clear condition in which there is loss of the usual integration of personal identity and memories, sensory and motor functions as a result of this illness.
Self-Blame, your honour, due to mental illness, can cause my client to declare a guilty plea to a crime he didn't commit just to ease the mental suffering. As you can clearly see, he barely understands where he is, there is no way to corroborate testimony, and anything that is said by my defendant at this stage must be weighed against his mental soundness to actually deliver accurate testimony.
We, of course, submit to the second assessment commissioned by the Court.