Just noting… she has admitted on the stand that she has an opioid addiction issue spanning years and years, and is on Suboxone all the time. It’s a regular prescription for her. So she has an opioid tolerance that is completely different than that of someone else who doesn’t use those medications regularly. The weeks of pain meds post surgery did not affect her the same way they might have someone else. That’s just how opioids work in people who habitually use them vs. people who don’t.
I would think that the anesthesia involved in her immediate surgery, as well as the medically induced coma WOULD have impacted her memory. Anesthesia is weird. And the longer you stay under, the greater the impact on your cognitive perception of things. And memory.
Of all the things that make LKs recollections of the day of the shooting unreliable, the thing I find most persuasive is the considerable anesthesia she experienced shortly after the shooting.
Last thing… MB had a documented history of 8-12 concussions over the course of his life. Including a skull fracture at age 8. It was documented at the hospital immediately after the shooting, that MB had been beaten about his head. In fact, RG and LKs testimony of events concurs with that medical evidence. In fact, they even said he lost consciousness during part of the struggle when being beaten about the head. MBs description of losing memory with respect to the immediate timeframe right around his head trauma that day? It’s completely consistent with amnesia related to concussions… most especially in people who have an extensive history of prior concussions.
I find it odd that people are choosing THAT aspect of MB to doubt. I could understand doubting the degree of persecutory delusional disorder… and someone thinking that it just didn’t quite reach to a level that made him not responsible for his actions. But why focus on his amnesia, and doubt that? There’s overwhelming evidence that is very likely real.
