I was not aware until now that Warriena said this:
"Warriena Wright was seeing and hearing things and claimed she would "jump off the balcony" about 40 minutes before plunging to her death, lawyers for Gable Tostee say."
It sounds as if Warriena's behaviour was psychotic if she was seeing and hearing (strange) things possibly due to the alcohol Tostee had been feeding her all night on an empty stomach.
I wonder if a Psychologist should have been employed to interpret the significance of this to help jurors to make the right verdict.
Tostee made reference to jumping off the balcony about three or four times during that night but I do not remember this being brought up in court. My take on this is that when one is drunk, you don't think logically or rationally. and the subconscious mind which is a literal mind takes over. The conscious mind is the censor and that function is missing when drunk.
Also, the jurors were told to only concentrate on the last 6 minutes of the audio tape. But psychologically, these has been a lead up with what he has been saying and doing and with what she has been saying and doing and things gradually got worse due to the alcohol. I think a Psychologist or Psychiatrist would have been able to explain this progression and what could have been going on in both of their minds. He/she could have explained the fear factor after the chokehold and why a girl would choose to escape over the balcony rather than waiting to calm down and eventually leave by the front door.
My question to a Psychiatrist would be was Warriena trying to escape life-threatening violence considering what led up to it such as the chokehold and her state of mind