Thread by @ZachNDupont

Stauch jury question thread:

PLEASE NOTE: I am going to be heavily paraphrasing the jury questions and (especially) the answers from Dr. Lewis, so not a lot of direct quotes. There were seven total questions from the jury, let’s get into it.

Juror question 1: In what way would Stauch giving Gannon enemas impact her relationship with him?

Answer: Lewis said that enemas, especially performed regularly on a child, can be a form of child molestation and sexual assault. However, Lewis cautioned that this claim from Stauch may not be true.

Juror question 2: Did the number of cases drop at Bellevue (the hospital Lewis used to work at) after Lewis’ dissociative identity disorder clinic opened?

Answer: Lewis said there was no actual research conducted on this, as far as she knows, but she “would bet money” that the answer is yes.

Juror question 3: How do you determine if someone is faking or exaggerating their mental illness or not?

Answer: Lewis gave a very long-winded answer to this, but essentially said what she had said a couple times in trial about this, that you have to look how someone acts in an interview, and look at evidence of it existing outside the interview in things like past writings.

Juror question 4: Did you perform any tests to help determine if Stauch was faking or exaggerating DID?

Answer: “Yes.” (that was actually all she said)

Juror question 5: Earlier, you said people with DID are more susceptible to believe what people say to them, then why do you openly talk about potential theories and explanations in front of the defendant during the interview.

Answer: Another long-winded answer from Lewis (and one I didn't fully understand) that I think can best be described as: (1/2)

It’s often good to run theories and questions by defendants to see their responses, even if their answers can’t necessarily be trusted, as the response can still inform on sanity.

Juror question 6: If the EEG and MRI weren’t provided how can you issue a final sanity report?

Answer: Lewis said that basically she can still conduct the sanity exam with interviews and background research and be confident in her findings, but that the EEG and MRI would have just (potentially) helped prove her findings.

And I'm very sorry to disappoint, but I missed the last juror question, it was around then that I started getting hundreds of twitter notifications from y'all and got a bit distracted, my fault on that one! Hopefully someone else can fill in the blank there.

And I believe before the mic was turned back on Stauch informed the court that she would not be testifying, the defense informed Werner they would be resting on Friday and the prosecution informed Werner they would "most likely" have no rebuttal witnesses. Closings coming Friday.

Anyway, this week has been very, very surreal and overwhelming, in the past two hours almost 1,000 people have followed me. I want to thank y'all for following my reporting the past couple days, It honestly means a lot!

I'll be back in court on Friday for what could be the last day of Stauch's trial. In the meantime, I'm gonna go have a beer lol.

Also one last thing, y’all should give @AshleyPorteeyo a follow too. She’s covered nearly every day of this trial too, and she was unlucky to have left a few minutes before juror questions.