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Guilty on all 6 counts!
She said his overall IQ is 83 and that normal is 85-115. Under 70 would be considered mental retardation.
She said Michael exhibited strength verbal IQ, but she said his reasoning and how fast he thinks was not so good.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepagelatest/life-sentences-with-the-possibility-of-parole-recommended-for-michael/article_8d86c9ed-16ee-56dc-b9a1-a06f2627b2ab.html
Jury is back. Suggested sentence is Life WITH possibility of parole.
Bever has a nonverbal IQ that is "borderline to mental retardation" with intellectual impairments that could have been caused by head injuries suffered as a small child, a psychiatrist told jurors Friday morning.
The same jurors have already recommended that Bever spend 28 years in prison for helping his brother attempt to kill a then-13-year-old sister, who survived the knife attack and became the prosecution's star witness against Michael.
A lot of evidence was released to the public today. Here are pages of the journal that Michael Bever kept while in jail (before it was confiscated).
https://www.facebook.com/pg/LoriFullbrightNewsOn6/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1850161488368159
These look like the drawings of a young child IMO.
“Every minute and every second,” Bever told a Tulsa County district judge Tuesday morning, “I’ve been thinking about what I could have done different and what kind of life I could have had with my family.”
Expected to hand down a formal sentence in Bever’s quintuple murder case, Judge Sharon Holmes instead decided to give herself more time to think about it, putting off a decision until Aug. 9.
Now 16, she’s terrified that her brother might someday get out of prison and come after her again, according to a letter written by her adoptive mother and read aloud in court Tuesday.
“It will take C.B. a long time, countless hours of therapy and deep soul searching to overcome what happened to her,” the letter said.
Anticipating a lengthy appeals process regardless of what decision she makes, Judge Holmes promised to deliver the sentence in writing so higher courts “will know exactly what I was thinking.”
“I want to take the time to get this right,” she said. “And I will get it as right as I can.”