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Cross-examination began with the Defense's forensic psychologist. On the stand, Dr. Michael Brannon confirmed that Sarah Boone was a victim of battered woman syndrome in her turbulent and violent relationship with Jorge Torres. Next, a former neighbor of Sarah Boone took the stand. She recalled to the jury in seeing the defendant with a black eye.
Cross-examination began with the Defense's forensic psychologist. On the stand, Dr. Michael Brannon confirmed that Sarah Boone was a victim of battered woman syndrome in her turbulent and violent relationship with Jorge Torres. Next, a former neighbor of Sarah Boone took the stand. She recalled to the jury in seeing the defendant with a black eye.
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S1, EP24 "Intimate Partner Violence"Forensic psychologist Dr. Julie Harper diagnosed Sarah Boone with PTSD, citing trauma from intimate partner violence. She went on to say that Boone's anxiety and low self-esteem kept her from moving on from her allegedly abusive boyfriend. The jury listened to the effects of intimate partner violence. Boone's defense alleged she was a battered woman who acted out in self-defense when she zipped up her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, in a suitcase and left him to die overnight.
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S1, EP25 "Explaining The Mental Health Diagnosis"Cross-examination continued on Dr. Julie Harper, a forensic psychologist, who evaluated Sarah Boone. Her diagnosis concluded that she was a victim of intimate partner violence in her unstable relationship with Jorge Torres. Dr. Harper told jurors that the defendant dealt with a mental health disorders exacerbated by her abusive boyfriend, Jorge Torres. Dr. Harper was the last witness before the Defense rested their case to jurors.
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S1, EP26 "State's Rebuttal Case"Mental health was a big topic in this trial. Sarah Boone's legal team relied heavily on the diagnosis she received in a full psychological evaluation conducted on her-weeks after she was arrested for the second-degree murder of her boyfriend. Next, on the stand was the State's forensic psychiatrist who evaluated the defendant in jail. Dr. Tonia Werner agreed with the defense expert's diagnosis that Boone did, indeed, suffer from battered woman's syndrome in her relationship with Jorge Torres.
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S1, EP27 "Symptoms Of A Battered Woman"The State's forensic psychiatrist continued answering probing questions under cross-examination. Boone's defense team was challenging her mental health report that dismissed the idea that her diagnosis of battered women's syndrome was what led her to kill her boyfriend in self-defense. Next, prosecutors delivered police bodycam footage that brought in some nuance to the troubled relationship between the defendant and the victim over the years.
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S1, EP23 "Dr. Julie Harper"A seasoned forensic psychologist explained to jurors how she evaluates the mental health of a person. Dr. Julie Harper testified that she met with the defendant nine times after she was accused of killing her boyfriend, Jorge Torres. She diagnosed Sarah Boone with low self-esteem, depression, alcoholism, narcissism, and PTSD after the full psychological evaluation.
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S1, EP22 "Constant Drama At Home"Cross-examination began with the Defense's forensic psychologist. On the stand, Dr. Michael Brannon confirmed that Sarah Boone was a victim of battered woman syndrome in her turbulent and violent relationship with Jorge Torres. Next, a former neighbor of Sarah Boone took the stand. She recalled to the jury in seeing the defendant with a black eye.
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S1, EP21 "Battered Woman Syndrome"A forensic psychologist testified for Sarah Boone's defense. Jurors will hear more about the mental health issues she claimed to be experiencing at the time her boyfriend, Jorge Torres, lost his life suffocating in a suitcase. On the stand in her murder trial was Dr. Michael Brannon, a forensic psychologist, who evaluated the defendant and diagnosed her with battered woman syndrome.
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S1, EP20 "Defending Herself"The jury listened to more testimony from the defendant on what led up to Jorge Torres' death. Under cross-examination, the State tried to poke holes in her credibility claiming her side of the story was inconsistent with the facts in this case. Next, her Defense called in officers who responded to domestic abuse incidents at the home of the defendant and Torres. The calls were made a year and two years before Torres lost his life stuck in a zipped-up suitcase.
