Lawyer claims client was driven to kill son because of 'slave syndrome'
Tuesday, June 1, 2004 at 08:19PM
TheSpook
Lawyer employs
slave-syndrome defense- It's a new kind of courtroom defense --
a Portland-area lawyer is planning to argue that because of slavery,
his client was driven to beat his own son to death. A two-year-old
Beavertonboy lost his life because his father suffered from
posttraumatic slave syndrome and could not see the error of his violent
ways,according to the lawyer. [more] and [more] and SEE Below.
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