Opinion ID: 2377543
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 9

Heading: The State's expert

Text: Dr. T. Young, the State's mental health expert, disagreed with Dr. Schmidt's and Dr. M. Young's assessments of Ybarra's intellectual functioning. He interviewed Ybarra on September 27, 2007, and conducted a battery of tests, the results of which he described as bizarre. Such bizarre results, according to Dr. T. Young, indicate that the client manipulated the evaluation and the test results could not be interpreted. Such was the case with Ybarra's test results. Dr. T. Young administered the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI) to Ybarra, who scored a full scale IQ score of 66, which was consistent with the score Ybarra received on the test administered by Dr. Schmidt and put Ybarra in the mild range of mental retardation. But Dr. T. Young testified that he had no confidence in the IQ score considering the uninterpretable results from the other tests that he administered to Ybarra. Because of the strange test results, Dr. T. Young administered the Test of Memory Malingering (TOMM) to Ybarra, who scored 30, indicating malingering. Based on the TOMM score, Dr. T. Young concluded that the data he collected from other tests was invalid, and therefore, he was unable to draw any conclusions about brain injury or mental retardation. Because Ybarra scored the same IQ on the test administered by Dr. Schmidt, Dr. T. Young questioned the validity of that IQ test. And, in fact, Dr. T. Young opined that there have been no valid IQ tests obtained from Ybarra that support mental retardation.