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Inman mitigation evidence presented in Greenville trial

By Bill Watkins, Esq.

Here is the story from the g-news.

Today's proceedings are expected to focus on the defense testimony of mental and prison experts, carrying over Price?s testimony on Tuesday -- based on 3,000 pages of medical and prison records -- to how Inman?s childhood and genetic predisposition to mental disorders paved his violent path.When Inman was a toddler, his biological father would tie Inman and his older sister to their bunk bed and molest them, a pattern of abuse that later manifested as Inman likewise bound his victims? hands after in most cases waking them in their beds, Price testified.

The sexual assaults, along with later sexual acts by another family member, left Inman permanently damaged mentally, Price testified. Inman?s only steady parental figure -- his grandfather, who would often try to intervene when Inman?s parents abused him -- died when Inman was a child, Price testified.At age 10, Inman was using drugs. At age 15, after dropping out of ninth grade, Inman was living on the streets, Price testified.

Full post as published by South Carolina Appellate Law Blog on September 10, 2008 (boomark / email).