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It was now the Defense's turn to give their final remarks to the jury. Jurors heard a different side of the story on what may have led Sydney Powell to kill her mother, Brenda. They painted for the jury the picture of a young college student who fell prey to a mental illness called schizophrenia. According to them, the last week of her mother's life she was out of it mentally-which her defense alleged was the beginning of her psychotic break that led to murder.
It was now the Defense's turn to give their final remarks to the jury. Jurors heard a different side of the story on what may have led Sydney Powell to kill her mother, Brenda. They painted for the jury the picture of a young college student who fell prey to a mental illness called schizophrenia. According to them, the last week of her mother's life she was out of it mentally-which her defense alleged was the beginning of her psychotic break that led to murder.
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S1, EP28 "Red Flags In The Psych Evaluations"The Defense had more questions for the State's mental health expert on the stand. Dr. Silvia O'Bradovich dismissed the claim of the Defense's experts that a psychotic break led to the defendant killing her mother, Brenda. Lead defense attorney Don Malarcik challenged the expertise and work of Dr. Silvia O'Bradovich. Powell's defense claimed temporary insanity in this case. But according to Dr. O'Bradovich, she didn't even meet the legal definition of Insanity at the time of the crime.
Mother Stabbed Murder Trial
S1, EP29 "Closing Arguments"Prosecutors delivered their closing argument. They began with attacking the Defense's assertion that Sydney Powell was legally insane at the time she fatally stabbed her mother, Brenda, in their home. According to the State's theory, the defendant wanted to hide that she had been kicked out of school and she feared disappointing her parents. So, they said, in a panic and frenzy she attacked her mother with a knife when she was on the phone with her school.
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S1, EP30 "Buying Time"Prosecutors summed up their case during closing arguments accusing Sydney Powell of felony murder. They dismissed the idea that she was mentally ill when she attacked her mother, Brenda. Prosecutors alleged the defendant was trying to buy herself time and lied to police after killing her mother, Brenda. This was during closing arguments in her murder trial. According to prosecutors, she did not suffer from mental illness during the three and a half minutes she fatally attacked her mom.
Mother Stabbed Murder Trial
S1, EP31 "Losing To Schizophrenia"It was now the Defense's turn to give their final remarks to the jury. Jurors heard a different side of the story on what may have led Sydney Powell to kill her mother, Brenda. They painted for the jury the picture of a young college student who fell prey to a mental illness called schizophrenia. According to them, the last week of her mother's life she was out of it mentally-which her defense alleged was the beginning of her psychotic break that led to murder.
Mother Stabbed Murder Trial
S1, EP27 "Challenging The Clinical Psychologist"The State's mental health expert admitted that she was not a board-certified forensic psychologist. Dr. Silvia O'Bradovich told the jury that this was her first time to testify in a case that was using an Insanity defense. Prosecutors wanted her to dismiss the claim that Schizophrenia and a psychotic break led Sydney Powell killing her own mother.
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S1, EP26 "Exaggerating And Feigning Her Symptoms"The clinical psychologist on the stand claimed Sydney Powell was malingering and feigning her symptoms in her Psych evaluations following the stabbing death of her mother, Brenda. Prosecutors presented the mental health Evaluation of Dr. Silvia O'Bradovich, a clinical psychologist for jurors. According to the report, this mental health expert saw no evidence of Schizophrenia or a psychotic break at the time the murder.
Mother Stabbed Murder Trial
S1, EP25 "State's Rebuttal Case"The Defense rested its case to the jury. Now it was time for the state's rebuttal. Prosecutors called one witness in their rebuttal case. Dr. Silvia O'Bradovich, a clinical psychologist, testified that she interviewed Sydney Powell for two hours and diagnosed her with borderline personality traits and unspecified anxiety disorder and concluded that she was malingering. Dr. O'Bradovich dismissed the claim that the defendant suffers from schizophrenia.
Mother Stabbed Murder Trial
S1, EP24 "Malingering Or Not?"Jurors learned about the correlation between mental illness and violence. This was the main issue in Sydney Powell's case where her defense claimed she had a psychotic break and went into a catatonic state when she attacked her mother, Brenda. Dr. Robin Belcher-Timme, a forensic psychologist, claimed Sydney was not faking her symptoms. Her defense tried to convince jurors that a mental illness led to the stabbing of her mother, Brenda, while her mom was on the phone.
