Opinion ID: 1201575
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Dr. Blackwood

Text: Defense counsel retained Dr. H. Daniel Blackwood, a clinical neuropsychologist, to follow-up on Dr. Tatro's diagnosis. Dr. Blackwood confirmed Dr. Tatro's suspicions that Defendant had organic brain dysfunction: These results serve to confirm Dr. Tatro's concern about organic brain dysfunction as a complicating factor in Mr. Stuard's presentation. The current test results do not suggest a specific etiology for Mr. Stuard's brain dysfunction. Developmental factors and his career as a boxer as described by Mr. Stuard and Dr. Tatro could certainly account for the current results. Based upon the information available to me, I have no reason to think that Mr. Stuard's mental condition at the time of his offenses was any different than it is at this time. He clearly does suffer from mental deficiency and generalized brain dysfunction. Blackwood Report at 4-5 (emphasis added). Like Dr. Tatro, Dr. Blackwood's IQ testing placed Defendant in the borderline range, his full scale score (74) being in the bottom four percent of the population.