Hi NowShaven and Welcome!
Ok, I am not real well versed in legal affairs, luckily, so I'm learning as I go. The fact that the defense chooses to pass on the mental eval. makes me wonder if they see it as a huge risk, knowing that the exam would be very telling in what vance is capable, or not capable for that matter, of doing, violently, to others- women in particular, and they don't want to chance it. Yet, vance says he didn't do it, seems like his lawyers aren't that confident imo.
Even though I don't have much experience with psychological exams either, is it safe to say that a personality that is capable of the level of violence involved here, would be easily recognized by the results of a mental eval?
Ok, I am not real well versed in legal affairs, luckily, so I'm learning as I go. The fact that the defense chooses to pass on the mental eval. makes me wonder if they see it as a huge risk, knowing that the exam would be very telling in what vance is capable, or not capable for that matter, of doing, violently, to others- women in particular, and they don't want to chance it. Yet, vance says he didn't do it, seems like his lawyers aren't that confident imo.
Even though I don't have much experience with psychological exams either, is it safe to say that a personality that is capable of the level of violence involved here, would be easily recognized by the results of a mental eval?