• Re: Texas nurse facing murder charges has 'no recollection' of fiery LA

    From Editor LA Times@21:1/5 to governor.swill@gmail.com on Fri Sep 2 03:27:01 2022
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    <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:

    No excuse. Lock this bitch up. Let the lesbians have her.


    Lawyers for the Texas traveling nurse held behind bars on six
    counts of murder for a fiery Los Angeles wreck earlier this
    month appealed for her to be released for psychiatric testing,
    alleging in a new motion that the woman suffered a mental
    collapse and may have blacked out before the deadly wreck.

    Nicole Linton, a traveling nurse from Texas, is facing murder
    charges after allegedly barreling a Mercedes-Benz at 90 mph
    through an intersection in Los Angeles’ Windsor Hills section on
    Aug. 4, sparking a fiery crash that killed six, including a
    pregnant woman, her unborn child, her boyfriend, and the woman’s
    11-month-old infant son.

    In a new motion filed Tuesday, Linton’s defense attorneys
    describe how she suffered a mental collapse before the crash.
    The filing also describes Linton’s deteriorating mental state
    after a bipolar disorder diagnosis four years ago.

    In the aftermath of the crash, Linton was treated at the Ronald
    Reagan UCLA Medical Center by Dr. William Winter, who wrote in
    an Aug. 6 evaluation that she experienced an "apparent lapse of
    consciousness" leading up to the wreck captured on disturbing
    surveillance video.

    "She has no recollection of the events that led to her
    collision," Winter wrote in the evaluation including among other
    heavily redacted medical records attached to the motion. "The
    next thing she recalled was lying on the pavement and seeing
    that her car was on fire."

    The motion says Linton’s family first became aware of her mental
    health issues in May 2018. A letter from Linton’s sister,
    Camille Linton, said that Nicole experienced her first mental
    breakdown while studying to become a nursing anesthetist at the
    University of Texas in Houston.

    "The stress was too much for her and it ‘broke’ her," Camille
    Linton wrote. "Thus beginning the journey of Nicole’s 4-year
    struggle with mental illness."

    At the time of the crash, Nicole Linton had been working for
    West Los Angeles Medical Center. She had expressed to her sister
    that her co-workers were "acting weird" toward her.

    "In the days and hours leading up to the events of August 4,
    Nicole’s behavior became increasingly frightening," the motion
    says.

    The day of the crash, Linton came home from the hospital for
    lunch and FaceTimed her sister "completely naked," according to
    court documents.

    She went back to work before leaving again and called her sister
    just minutes before the crash to say she was coming back to
    Houston to visit her niece and that she would be getting married
    soon.

    While experiencing a panic attack in May 2018, Nicole Linton ran
    out of her apartment, and when police approached, she jumped on
    the hood of the cop car and was arrested for disorderly conduct,
    the motion says. She called her family from the police station
    stating concern for her pet turtle at home.

    Days after that arrest, she confessed to her family that she
    believed she was possessed by her dead grandmother. The motion
    says that she visited Ben Taub psychiatric hospital the next day
    and required stitches after banging her head into a glass
    partition and complaining about police and the Supreme Court.
    Records note she sang Bob Marley as the medical staff tended to
    the bloody wound.

    The motions say Linton was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at
    Ben Taub and prescribed psychiatric medication. More than a year
    later, a neighbor spotted Linton running around her apartment
    complex naked and called the woman’s family. She at that point
    was involuntarily committed.

    She stopped taking her medication during the pandemic, and an
    online therapist told her that she merely suffered from anxiety.
    She also began not sleeping and accused her family of stealing
    from her.

    The motion says Linton – charged with six counts of murder and
    five counts of manslaughter – should be released on no more than
    $300,000 bail with ankle monitoring to undergo testing at UCLA
    Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital.

    But prosecutors with Los Angeles County District Attorney George
    Gascón’s office have maintained that Linton, who has family in
    Jamaica, is a flight risk and a danger to public safety in
    requesting that she remain behind bars while awaiting trial.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-nurse-facing-murder-charges-no- recollection-fiery-la-crash-mental-collapse-motion

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