GUILTY TX - Lauren Landavazo, 13, killed & one injured in shooting, Wichita Falls, 2 Sept 16

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price said he had testified about 25 times for the state since 1987.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price: Not guilty by reason of insanity is rare as a defense.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price said he has issued opinions of not guilty by reason of insanity for both defense & prosecution.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price: Yes, a person is presumed sane at the time of the offense.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price: Defense has to prove insanity.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price said his opinion is that during the crime, Kody Austin Lott was likely suffering from a severe mental defect or disease but it did not prevent him from knowing what was wrong.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price: Wrong in Texas law means illegal.

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Price said he charges $300 an hour & has spent 30 hours on the case.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price: In Eddie Rolf case in which he was substance impaired but found knew what he was doing was wrong when he killed Chris Kyle on a shooting range.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price: Has spent about 30 hours on Kody Austin Lott case.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price: Yes, received a copy of Dr. Brian Falls’ notes, reviewed other material & interviewed Lott at Wichita County Jail. Falls, a psychiatrist, testified for the defense that Lott was insane at the time of the crime.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price said when he interviewed Lott he had a somewhat emotionless demeanor, but at times smiled & laughed inappropriately while talking about the crime.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price: Lott said he had a history of anxiety & felt uncomfortable around other people.

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Lott told Price he heard voices outside his head the day if the shooting, which said, “Enjoy murder” and “It will be worth it.”

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Price: Lott told him he enjoyed reading about satanism & felt a kinship w/them because they were outside the mainstream.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price said he gave two tests to Lott typically used by forensic psychologists to determine their “response style.”

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Price: Tests show if they’re trying to look better or worse than actually are.

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Price: PRI test showed he tended to portray himself in a very negative, pathological light.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price: So you have to be careful relying on Lott’s self-report.

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Price: Especially need to be leery as it gets closer to trial & defendant becomes aware of the possibility of not guilty by reason of insanity.

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Price: Did Structured Inventory for Malingering Symptoms.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price: Test showed he was exaggerating his symptoms across the board.

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Price: Malingering means a person is faking or exaggerating a mental illness for some sort of reward like more attention.

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Price: Results showed a score of 26 — nearly twice the cutoff score if 14.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price: Lott gave him an extensive history of substance abuse since age of 13 — except for alcohol.

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Price: Lott’s maternal grandfather had bipolar disorder.

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Price: Lott worked at Sonic for a year and 2 months at Chipotle where he walked off the job. Total employment history.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price: Lott diagnosed w/schizoaffective disorder in 2015.

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Price said he found it hard to figure out what was wrong with Lott, who had used a lot of drugs.

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Price: “If you take the right kind of drugs in large amounts for a long time period, it can cause you to have brain damage.”

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price: Don’t have a lot of disagreement w/diagnostic formulation presented by Falls.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price: Diagnosis of major psychotic disorder was likely at play when Lott committed the crime. Appears to be controlled w/medication now.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price: A personality disorder order might be at issue in Lott. It’s not a mental illness. “That’s just the way they are.”

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 2h2 hours ago
Price: A dependent personality is so dependent on other people can’t function

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Price: Thinks Lott had schizotypal personality disorder.

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Price: In disorder, person uncomfortable around others, interested in occult and odd things & will talk about them anytime & use of illegal drugs makes them vulnerable to having a psychotic episode.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Price said Lott’s use if cannabis & opioids before & on the day of the shooting pushed him into psychosis.

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Price: Lott’s mother fed his personality disorder by supplying him with money.

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Price: It was important that for about 45 minutes during the police interview Lott seemed rational & lied about he crime.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Price: Yes, important that Lott seemed rational during the first telephone call w/his parents from jail.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Price: Lott was under a Lot of stress around time of crime. He couldn’t stop using drugs & was on community supervision, which involves random drug test. These issues did involve his own decisions.

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Price: Lott told him he was only obsessed w/Satanism while on drugs.

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Price: About the crime, “He told me this was planned” for about two months.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Price: He thought the offense would magically solve his problems, mostly to do w/independence.

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Price: He told Price he took 8 to 12 hydrocodone on day of the shooting.

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Price: He told me he smoked all the pot he could that day, & it was laced with PCP or embalming fluid.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Price: Yes, he had built up a tolerance for drugs & could function to carry out the shooting.

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Price: He did say that he was feeling on top of the world & feeling no pain.

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Price: He said he didn’t kill Makayla Smith because he didn’t have enough ammunition.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Price: He took the planned escape route, listened to the scanner, took more drugs to relax & followed the news.

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Price: He learned from the news that police were looking for a black truck & didn’t have a description of the killer.

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Price: So he set about covering his tracks because he thought he could get away with the crime.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Price: In the tape you saw, he’s really kind of excited about the crime, smiling & laughing — as he did with Price.

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Price: His behavior was consistent with knowing what he did was wrong.

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Price: Of the 25 insanity cases, he’s been involved in, he can’t think of any other case w/so many signs the defendant knew what he was doing was wrong.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Price: I do think schizoaffective disorder was part of his mental state at the time of the offense.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
The courtroom, which can hold 70 observers, is full today

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Lauren Landavazo’s parents, Vern & Bianka Landavazo, and her grandparents, Don & Faye Landavazo, are observing today from the front row.

 

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Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Price: Yes, I had a finding if substance-abuse induced psychosis in Lott.

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Earlier, Price said Lott showed no remorse when talking about the crime.

Trish Choate‏ @Trishapedia 1h1 hour ago
Price: Medication can put schizoaffective disorder in remission. Lott will need to take meds for it the rest of his life.