Another thing you post over and over again is that JM was "borderline retarded" and had this IQ of 72. Also not true. He was a dumbass, but he was not nearly the mental invalid you make him out to be. I've known dumbasses like JM, and not one of them would confess over and over to committing multiple child murder.
[FONT="]Here’s what his defense expert stated in court.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Ok. And the WAIS-R is the test that you use to determine the defendant’s IQ?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Yes.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: And in that particular test, what was the performance IQ?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: 75? Let me—yes.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Now, you had in your file some past tests that had been conducted on Jessie to determine IQ, did you not?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Yes I did.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Ok. And in ’89 did you have a test, an IQ test that was performed on him to determine what his functioning was at that point?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Uh, let me—yes I did. I need to find the records to find exactly what—[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Sure, Doctor, go ahead.[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: I can’t remember (unintelligible). Yes, I’m sorry. Ok, yes.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Ok, and what was that performance IQ in 1989?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: 1989, uh, I’m sorry, it’s not in this report. I’ll have to dig out all the old evidence, I thought it was in this report and it’s not.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Sure, I understand.[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: In, uh, which year are we talking about now?[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: 1989.[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: 1989 we had a performance of 84 and a verbal of 68 and a full-scale of 74.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Ok, and in 1992 there was also—prior to the time you did your examination there was another IQ test, correct?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Yes.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: What was his performance IQ at that time?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: 88.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Ok, and what was his full-scale IQ at that time?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: 73.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Ok, so the two past IQ examinations that had been performed on him immediately prior to the one that you did indicated that his performance level was in the average range, is that correct?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Uh, low average, yes. The first placed low average, the second one average, yes.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Ok, well am I correct in understanding that anything above 80 is in the average?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: That depends on the criteria you want to go by. Typically it’s—Social Security uses 80 above, other places use 84, so yea.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: So, by most criteria 84 and 88 would be in the average range?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Yes.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Ok. And when we talk about performance IQ, describe what that is, what that involves.[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Those entail, problem solving, conceptualization tasks, thinking tasks, they’re non-verbal. Example is putting together puzzles. Being able to—I show you a pattern of blocks and you have to build designs that match the pattern of blocks. It’s conceptualization in a non-verbal form, problem solving in a non-verbal form.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: And in regard to that he rates about average, right?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: On those two testings, yes.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Now the MMPI-2, that was another test that you conducted on him, is that correct?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Yes.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Now I don’t want to get too complicated ‘cause I don’t understand all this stuff, but I notice down here you said, let’s see, you said he had a high—or you said a mild elevation in the F scale.[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Yes.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Ok. Now Doctor it’s true that what you actually found was a T value in that F scale of 83.[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Yes.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Now are you telling me that that’s a mild elevation?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: It’s an elevation above normal levels.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Well don’t they rank the elevations—as far as the T scale is concerned isn’t that something that’s actually ranked in terms of low range, middle range, moderately high range and very high range?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Yes. That may have been a mistake then. I may well have mispronounced what it was supposed to be.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: This is a text regarding—MMPI Handbook. Show me here what an 82 to 88 T score on the F scale indicates to you in that book.[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Uh, very high.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Very high?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Yes. This would not be quite the same because this is for the MMPI rather than the MMPI-2, which changed critera, but it would still be in the high range.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: So when you put in here that that was a mild elevation, that would not be accurate would it?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: No. It would not be. No.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: And then from that statement that it was a mild elevation you interpreted that that could show malingering, right?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Yes.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: And malingering means what, Doctor?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: It means, uh, making up stuff. Trying to present yourself as being ill when you’re not for some particular gain.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Did you explain to Jessie what these tests were being performed for?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: We talked some about them in general, yes.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Ok. And he knew that you were coming to court to testify about the results of these tests?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Yes.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: And you talked with his lawyers before you took the test or gave him the test?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Yes.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: And do you know whether he talked with his lawyers that he was gonna take those tests?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Not that I know of. I don’t know.[/FONT]
[FONT="]DAVIS: Ok. Well, in your report you said that because of that elevation in that T scale—that 83 score, because of that mild elevation that gave you some concern about malingering?[/FONT]
[FONT="]WILKINS: Yes.[/FONT]
[FONT="]So, you see there that Jessie’s IQ was in the 80’s? That makes him dumb, but certainly not retarded or even mildly retarded for that matter. Gary Ridgway the notorious Green River killer had an IQ in the 80’s and that certainly doesn’t make him retarded now does it? So the whole claim that Misskelley’s IQ was 72 should be viewed skeptically in light of these facts.[/FONT]