Opinion ID: 2584196
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 8

Heading: Dr. Wade's testimony regarding Plichta's omissions.

Text: After Dr. Gitter testified, the prosecution called Dr. Wade, who testified that Plichta had not shared with him his beliefs in aliens: Q. . . . [A]t any point during the course of your interview with [Plichta] or from any of the records that you were able to review, did Mr. Plichta talk about anything regarding the end of the world? A. No. Q. Did he talk about [the fact that] there might be, or suggest that there were, aliens in humanoid form that intended to take over the world? A. No. Q. Did he express anything along the lines of those kinds of statements to you? A. No. Q. Did he express to you that he was involved in reading about these types of things, including other-Earth histories, perhaps conspiracy theories, anything along those lines? A. No. Q. . . . [I]f those were prevailing thoughts on . . . the part of Mr. Plichta at the time of your interview with him, would you have expected those types of things to come forward? A. Yes. Q. Can you explain why? A. Well, when I asked him about what the purpose was of my interview, he talked about having consulted with his attorney about his mental state at the time of the offense and whether he would have a defense to his mental state. Q. . . . [D]id he at any point indicate anything that would remotely suggest that he had thoughts about the world being . . . ended or that there were aliens amongst us? A. No. On cross-examination, Dr. Wade testified that his interview of Plichta had lasted approximately one hour in duration. Much like her questioning of Dr. Gitter, defense counsel attempted to demonstrate why Dr. Wade's report did not include any references to Plichta's thoughts about aliens: Q. . . . As far as the interview you had with [Plichta], did you tape record that? A. No. Q. So you don't have any verbatim record to go back and look now [at] what he told you? A. I wrote down a lot of things that he told me. Q. But no verbatim record? A. I would say those were verbatim. Q. You don't have the complete interview recorded in any manner that we could go back and look at now; correct? A. The entire interview, no.