Opinion ID: 2681345
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Ines Monguio, Ph.D.

Text: Clinical psychologist Ines Monguio interviewed defendant and his mother and administered tests to determine whether defendant had brain impairment. Monguio said that defendant ―could not put together more than maybe four or five words in a sentence that would make sense before his speech would break down.‖ 11 His speech lacked maturity and sophistication, and he had difficulty processing information. He had a ―globally impaired brain,‖ including disabilities in learning, attention, abstract thought, and verbal skills. In Dr. Monguio‘s view, defendant‘s father‘s leaving the family made defendant angry, and he was unable ―to do anything constructive with the anger.‖ Dr. Monguio thought that it was highly unlikely defendant was capable of planning and executing a complex act requiring more than one step and that he could not recognize the moral and physical significance of shooting Gonzales.