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State v. Flake8/5/2003
d Dr. Janet Johnson from 1995 to 1997, but that his condition did not improve. Flake recalled the defendant saying at various times, "my head is messed up," "my mind is blank," and "I don't know who I am." The defendant isolated himself, refused to trust anyone, and lost several jobs. Flake testified that the defendant's academic skills continued to erode and that he had the writing ability of an elementary school student. Although the defendant enrolled at the University of Memphis, he passed only two of six courses.
James Flake testified that the defendant's condition continued its downward spiral throughout February and March of 1997, and up until the offenses in this case. The defendant was depressed, remained in bed much of the time, and often made bizarre remarks, which included the following:
ù In February or early March of 1997, the defendant stated that his A.A. sponsor was "running drugs from Mexico" and that another sponsor was going to "beat him to death with a baseball bat."
ù The defendant said that he had caused a recent airliner crash in Florida.
ù The defendant wrote the name of his elementary school principal on a piece of paper with the words, "the first woman to hit me."
ù The defendant told his father that a grade school classmate told him that an elementary school teacher had "bad mouthed him." The defendant also told his father that "Buchanani has the answer."
ù The defendant told his father that he was "getting closer to the answer" and gave his father a business card and other "important papers" to hold onto.
ù The defendant said that he knew who was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
In March of 1997, the defendant drove to a convenience store in a thunderstorm, took cigarettes, smiled and waved at the clerk, and then left without paying. When the police arrived to investigate the theft, James Flake drove the defendant back to the store to pay for the cigarettes. The defendant was angry, insisted that he was owed the cigarettes, and had no remorse.
On April 1, 1997, only four days before the offenses in this case, James Flake believed the defendant was deteriorating and arranged for him to meet with Dr. Johnson. Dr. Johnson gave the defendant an envelope containing samples of Prozac intended to last for two weeks. On the very next day, however, Dr. Johnson called James Flake and told him that she had received a telephone call from a man who had found the envelope with the Prozac samples in his mailbox. The defendant said that he had placed the Prozac in the mailbox because he believed the man, who he did not know, needed help. According to James Flake, it was around this time that the defendant had pulled a fire alarm at the University of Memphis because a professor had changed his assignment.
James Flake testified that when he finally asked the defendant why he was acting so strangely, the following exchange occurred:
[The defendant] was sitting on the edge of his bed and he turned and looked at me for about ten seconds. I was petrified by his look. I can only describe it as it appeared that his eyes had even changed colors. It was as if he was burning right through me. He thought for ten seconds and his answer to what had caused him to do these things was the opening of the new Wolfchase Galleria Mall. I knew at that point that I believed my son had lost his mind.
Flake made another appointment for the defendant with Dr. Johnson on April 3, 1997, during which both he and Dr. Johnson tried to convince the defendant to voluntarily commit himself. The defendant refused, saying that
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