The prosecution employed its own expert testimony from Dr. Herbert Spiegel, a psychologist in private practice. As shown on Primetime in 2003, Spiegel stated that the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder is rare, and suggested Huskey was simply a psychopath who created "Kyle" to manipulate the court. He believed Huskey displayed a brilliant imagination, but not multiple personalities.
The prosecutor also charged that the personalities were based on characters from a daytime soap opera, Days of Our Lives. In addition, no one had corroborated the alleged child abuse had triggered the disorder.
Then a jailhouse snitch, William Fletcher, who shared an adjoining cell with Huskey, testified that Huskey had read Sybil and had told him he was going to pretend to be crazy like that to avoid a death sentence. Fletcher had seen no evidence of any of the alleged alter personalities. Neither had Huskey's mother. She claimed Tom had always been just plain Tom.
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gabbahshareef, why do you feel the need to give me a fake translation? It is a waste of my time as well as yours.
2007-06-02
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