Estrada, who faces either life in prison without parole or the death penalty for the capital murder conviction, has brain damage because of partial fetal alcohol syndrome, Adler surmised. He has the developmental age of a 10-year-old, he said.
“We say that FASD is a lifetime impairment,” Adler told jurors, explaining that patients have problems with maturity, social skills, judgment and impulse control. “That (immaturity) is actually present all throughout his record.”
Read more about EStrada, here.
Monday, March 8, 2010
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