PORT ANGELES — Schizophrenia made Thomas Martin Roberts shoot a sheriff’s deputy, the defense’s final witness testified Monday in Roberts’ murder trial.
“His reality base was totally caught up with hallucinated materials and influence on his mind,” said Dr. Christian Harris, a Seattle physician and forensic psychiatrist.
“He was not truly capable of logical coherence, premeditation.”
Harris, the second medical expert to testify for the defense, took the stand Monday afternoon in the eighth day of trial for Roberts, charged with killing deputy Wallace E. “Wally” Davis on the front porch of Roberts’ Ennis Creek Road home in eastern Port Angeles on Aug. 5, 2000.
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