Word: concussional
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Pring-Wilson claimed he lied to the police because he was scared of retaliation from his attackers, adding that he was not thinking clearly due to a concussion. The defense has argued that Pring-Wilson suffered a concussion from the altercation.
Lynch later asked, “A concussion doesn’t make you lie, Mr. Pring-Wilson, does it?”
During Schmahmann’s cross-examination by Assistant District Attorney Adrienne Lynch, the chief prosecutor on the case, he conceded that the CAT scan performed on Pring-Wilson on April 13 showed no evidence of hemorrhage. Such evidence would indicate concussion, though its absence does not preclude it, according...
“With regard to someone who has a concussion, it wouldn’t predispose one to tell a lie?” Lynch said.
Dr. David Ross, an emergency room physician who treated Pring-Wilson in Septemer 1998 for a concussion suffered as a result of a rugby game, testified that Pring-Wilson told him then that he had suffered “four or five” previous concussions to the head.