As to jurist's reference to "TS's Truth", all IMO:
I'm just going to bounce off a few posts above which bring up that these days everybody's got "their truth" - and show concern that this commenting Jurist seems to acknowledge that.
I think this Jurist is referencing Day 6 expert testimony - as opposed to suggesting there's such a thing as "everyone's own truth" that should be considered by the jury.
Unfortunately, news outlets are NOT going to publish much of the expert medical testimony from day 6 that experts found that TS has a delusion-laced type of dementia. They're not going to shake down the experts and TS's own doctors to get HIPPA-protected medical information out of them to publish TS's dementia diagonsis. The news has focused on the physical impossibility of TS's version of events. (Which is fine - and also - which lost the case for TS.)
FWIW - here's some detail I learned from watching medical expert testimony Day 6; see it for yourself on youtube.
One of the neurology experts - on the stand - TESTIFIED when asked if she believed TS was lying when he described his version of the collision - that she could not say that TS was intentionally lying when he tells his version of events.
Rather, she testified that TS's version of vents was the version that TS sincerely believed - that his version was "his truth" in his state of dementia-clouded thought processes. In other word's TS really believes GP screamed like a banshee and plowed him down and gave him serious worsening dementia (i.e. that's really "his truth").
The Jury learned from the testimony of several medical experts that TS's brain scans confirm a physical brain disability that causes any number of progressively worsening dementia-related symptoms:
Adult-onset Hydrocephalus – Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatments
The Jury learned this physical brain disability appeared on his scans long before the ski collision at trial. It can be caused by a stroke; TS had a stroke long before the ski collision; TS family and girlfriend testified as to TS's personality changes.
The testifying experts made it clear that Terry suffers from dementia. They also explained the type of dementia TS has can cause confabulation and delusional thinking ... amongst many other personality and cognitive changes.
The testifying experts also reviewed how common it is for families and patient to completely miss the early signs of progressive dementia. Even family forms their own version of reality to explain the changes in their loved one's personality (attributes to anxiety, lack of sleep, depression rather than actual organic brain disease/dementia).
So, that expert testimony is what I think the interviewed jurist was referencing.
(And that expert testimony (I think) is why we saw GP wishing him well before leaving the courtroom after the decision. She realized he and his family through the process of the fact-finding and expert testimony in this public trial - were likely just coming to grips with some devastating facts themselves; what's wrong with TS is not a years-long mild concussion, but rather, brain-debilitating disease.)
If you didn't happen to catch expert testimony Day 6 and then see TS's final (absurd) testimony on the stand, it's easy to miss this shocking and sad revelation.
For this reason, IMO, we'll see a minimum of TS-bashing, or any fraud discussion - certainly not the legit news. TS would have a solid medical defense re fraud. I keep wondering when TS's lawyers were aware of TS's disability.
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