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Excerpts from 1997 Appeals
"...arguably adds to the Commonwealth's case concerning Baldwin's appreciation of the wrongfulness of his conduct. Baldwin disclosed during the interview that, after he fetched the metal bat from his car and returned to Hall's house, he kept it hidden from the victim's sight behind his back and behind a kitchen. That information, together with the other information, formed the basis of the psychiatrist's conclusion as to Baldwin's appreciation of the wrongfulness of his action...Hall's testimony corroborated Baldwin's attempt to conceal the bat when Baldwin stood in the doorway to the upstairs room where the killing occurred. "
" ... the Commonwealth called the forensic psychiatrist who had examined Baldwin. He testified that he found no signs of mental illness in Baldwin at the interview or in records relative to his behavior just after the crime, as reported by Baldwin, Hale Hospital, or the department. He concluded that Baldwin did not suffer a mental disease or defect such that he lacked substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the law, nor from a psychological disorder that would have disrupted his ability deliberately to premeditate murder or that prevented him from forming a specific intent to kill. "
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