AM … All those opioids seemed to impair your cunningness, IMO.
All that talk about variables yesterday…. Paul’s use of his camera/cellphone was a variable AM did not anticipate. The fact that the defense hasn’t presented an expert to refute the videos screams volumes to me.
We just listened to 30 minutes of discussion about pictures of flip flop prints….
JMO. moo
That's a really interesting point. Opiates would, IMO, dull the sense of cunning (strategizing, working a scheme, conning, stealing, grifting, etc). Perhaps that's the reason opiates were his preferred drugs (his own attempt to avoid having to actual change his stripes, but instead to dampen down the irresistible urges that his genes gave him...to steal, deceive, etc).
Paul was about to be on trial for homicide, had an alcohol problem, was reckless, etc. BM cheated enough in law school to get kicked out. AM - well, we know what he's capable of. Sounds like there are likely more generations of antisocials on this family tree.
If PM and MM had found AM's main stash of pills, the ones he replenished from, he must have been furious. And out of control, mentally as the need to secure the means of his addiction became paramount. We don't know how many pills this was, but a "bag" had to be quite a few - his mental insurance policy, and it was Librium that he also had (I've seen two different versions of what the other pill might be), that would serve the same purpose. Indeed, some people take benzos in order to wean themselves off opiates, usually repeating a cycle.
He probably saw those as his "happy pills" that kept him from being a raging homicidal maniac from day to day.
JMO
