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By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
on August 30, 2016 at 6:35 PM, updated August 30, 2016 at 6:38 PM
A mental health expert will testify at trial next month that Oregon standoff defendant David Fry suffers from schizotypal personality disorder characterized by paranoia, anxiety and heightened suspicions that are exacerbated by stressful events, his attorney said Tuesday.
Fry's attorney Per C. Olson intends to argue at trial that his client mostly kept to himself, observing quails and other wildlife at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, until the Jan. 26 police fatal shooting of occupation spokesman Robert "LaVoy'' Finicum on a rural road between the refuge and John Day.
It was the shooting and the resulting "echo chamber'' that Finicum was "unjustly murdered'' at the hands of law enforcement that triggered Fry's fear that federal agents were going to come after him, his attorney argued. The shooting of Finicum shooting led Fry to hunker down in a campground at the far western edge of the refuge parking lot until his surrender Feb. 11, Olson argued ...
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/08/oregon_standoff_david_fry_suff.html
madokie
(51,076 posts)Enjoy you stay in the big house there mr fry. I'm sure there are some in there who can't wait to get their hands on your stupid ignorant paranoid ass
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)niyad
(113,628 posts)hunter
(38,337 posts)It may explain some of his behaviors but it doesn't excuse them.
On the other hand, U.S.A. prisons suck.
Nobody "deserves" to be treated inhumanly.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Quails are pretty cool. Went hunting for them once, but never could bring myself to fire my shotgun.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)a "Futurama" thread.