Latina Marie Oates was suffering from a severe mental disorder at the time she killed her son in a Laurel hotel room and she is not faking that to try to avoid prison, a pair of forensic psychologists testified on Wednesday as the defense began presenting its case in the capital murder trial in Jones County Circuit Court.
Dr. Criss Lott of Ridgeland was on the witness stand all morning and just after lunch, and Dr. Robert Storer of Baton Rouge took the stand for the rest of the afternoon. Defense attorneys were expected to call Oates’ husband Mark to the stand on Thursday morning and the trial is expected to wrap up after that.
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