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Sacramento defense attorney Richard W. Hamlin, charged with breaking his wife's ribs, fracturing her nose and torturing her for years, testified Thursday that he held a Bible-study class in his El Dorado Hills home for more than a year.
"I was in men's group Bible study," Hamlin told the El Dorado Superior Court jury that soon will decide the fate of the 45-year-old former Sacramento prosecutor.
In his testimony, which will resume Tuesday, Hamlin denied abusing his wife during their 20-year marriage, accusing her of attacking him on one night with a 3-foot sword that narrowly missed him and left a gaping slice in the couple's bed.
In animated and sometime startling testimony, Hamlin told jurors that his wife was suffering from "flashbacks" because her father had molested her as a child.
He said that through hypnosis, behavior control and the threat of harm, his wife was "predisposed" to further abuse as an adult.
Through "memory sessions" involving the review of family letters and photos, Hamlin said, he and his wife spent hours and sometimes days working on filling gaps of her childhood memories. Susan Hamlin later turned against him and conspired with Satanic cultists, including her father, to murder him as a "Christian trophy," Hamlin contends.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/13958002p-14792348c.html
"I was in men's group Bible study," Hamlin told the El Dorado Superior Court jury that soon will decide the fate of the 45-year-old former Sacramento prosecutor.
In his testimony, which will resume Tuesday, Hamlin denied abusing his wife during their 20-year marriage, accusing her of attacking him on one night with a 3-foot sword that narrowly missed him and left a gaping slice in the couple's bed.
In animated and sometime startling testimony, Hamlin told jurors that his wife was suffering from "flashbacks" because her father had molested her as a child.
He said that through hypnosis, behavior control and the threat of harm, his wife was "predisposed" to further abuse as an adult.
Through "memory sessions" involving the review of family letters and photos, Hamlin said, he and his wife spent hours and sometimes days working on filling gaps of her childhood memories. Susan Hamlin later turned against him and conspired with Satanic cultists, including her father, to murder him as a "Christian trophy," Hamlin contends.
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/13958002p-14792348c.html