hilton as so mentally damaged to be incapable of responsibility for his actions. freedman began with a pet scan expert who testified about traumatic brain injury he had suffered as a 10-year-old. he was taken to st. joseph s hospital in tampa and given 200 stitches. and this is an example of the murphy bed. and jurors that s not all the defense s expert continued. hilton was abused as a child and he he lashed out as a teenager. a defense neuropsychologist tested hilton who it it turns out is as bright as he thinks he is. on the wexler intelligence scale he scored an overall verbal iq of 120 which puts him in the upper 10% or so of the population.
good morning, ladies and gentlemen. robert freedman was the defense s lead attorney in the penalty phase. his strategy was to portray hilton as so mentally damaged to be incapable of responsibility for his actions. freedman began with a pet scan expert who testified about traumatic brain injury he had suffered as a 10-year-old. he was taken to st. joseph s hospital in tampa and given 200 stitches. and this is an example of the murphy bed. and jurors that s not all the defense s expert continued. hilton was abused as a child and he he lashed out as a teenager. a defense neuropsychologist tested hilton who it it turns out is as bright as he thinks he is. on the wexler intelligence scale he scored an overall verbal iq of 120 which puts him in the upper 10% or so of the population. another psychiatrist diagnosed him with multiple diagnoses. we call it an unresolved edible complex. a child can grow up with this emptiness inside of them. to top it off, the defense continued, hi