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FORT tORTd AP -A CLIII- ICAL PSYCHOLOGIST FROM TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY T4TI1XED TODAY THAT BENJAMIN LAC{ ACCUSED O A CAMPUS MURDER AT LUBBOCK IS MENTALLY ILL THE TESTIMONY CAME AT T{E END OP A. PRE-TRIAL HEARING OR LACH WHO IS SCHEDULED TO GO 0 O TRIAL IN THE MURDER CASE IN LATE SEPTEMBER* JUDGE BYRON MATI EWst ROLDN ING THE HEARING, DID NOT TABE AlY ACTION ON THE TESTIMONY OP THE PSYCHOLOGIST, DR. MURRAY KOV. NAR. DR* KOVNAR, A PROFESSOR AT THE LUBBOCK SCHOOL, SAID HE HA$ EX- AMINED LAOE SEVERAL TIMES AnD ALWAYS HAS FOUND SYMPTOMS Or EMOTIONAL DISORDER,. THE PRE-TRIAL HEARING WHICH BEGAN THURSDAY, WAS SIMPLY TO GET OUT OF THE WAY NUMEROUS DE... FENSE MOTIONS, ONE MOTION WAS THAT THE PRos-. EGUTION NOT ASK FOR TILE DEATH LEGAL MAUJ E&24W T THE YOUNG MAN IS CHARGED WITH KILLING A TECH CLING WEE, RS, SARAH ALICE MOB. GAN, 64 t IN THEESCIENCgEBUZIG AT THE SCHOOL, DEC, 1967,, AUTHORITIES SAID HERHEAD WAS ALMOST SEVEREWITH A SCALPEL AND HACKSAW BLAHAL LACH I TAS RUH INSANE WHEN H G GAME UP FOR TRIAL C MURX7 CHARGES IN- DECSIBER 198 EW WAS SENT TO RUSK STATE HOSPITAL AND WAS DISCWIARGD LAST MARSa AS CURED,
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Psychologist testimony],
script,
July 17, 1970, 12:00 p.m.;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1332283/m1/1/:
accessed July 16, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
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