103 Wash. App. 706 - State v. Bottrell’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “Ordinarily, persons with PTSD are in contact with reality and do not display any symptoms of psychosis such as hallucinations or delusions. PTSD is essentially an anxiety disorder. However, some patients, especially those who are subsequently subjected to extreme stress, develop a transient dissociative reaction with episodes of depersonalization or derealization. Most of the time, these feelings of unreality pass without incident, but occasionally criminal behavior may erupt. The question of criminal responsibility, therefore, is pertinent since a person's cognitive or volitional state may be impaired during a dissociative reaction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bottrell

2. “Certainly when you start to be flooded with memories of abusive events, emotional, that's a very strong emotional content. This is an individual who has lived many years of her life as a substance abuser to avoid those feelings. So it's hard to imagine that when those feelings and those memories are flooding her that she would be able to form the specific intent and be responding only to that which is in front of her.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bottrell

3. “during which components of the [traumatic] event are relived and the person behaves as though experiencing the event at that moment. American Psychiatric Association, DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS, 424 (4th ed.1994). When a person has a flashback, he or she undergoes an”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bottrell