Opinion ID: 2570148
Heading Depth: 6
Heading Rank: 10

Heading: Pauline Borders

Text: Borders, who taught defendant in seventh grade, testified about defendant's academic difficulties and the school's failure to meet his needs. The prosecutor asked if she would like to see a psychiatric report by Dr. Gaughan who talks about all the things [defendant] said he was doing while he was in school? Borders said she would, and read the report during a break. When she returned, the prosecutor asked if she was personally aware of any of the things that [defendant] reported doing from his early adolescence? Borders said she was not. In the absence of an objection, the court had no occasion to rule on this use of the Gaughan report. However, the fact that Borders was unaware of anything in the report was clearly irrelevant to her testimony regarding his problems in school.