A Time to Kill

chapter 40 Brigance masterfully discredits the prosecution’s psychiatrist. How?

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He first gets the doctor to admit that he works for the state and has testified only for the state, never for a defendant. Then he leads him to admit that, in three cases, he single-handedly opposed several psychiatrists for the defense, and the defendant was found insane and sent to his care at Whitfield. Jake asks, "Do you generally treat and retain sane people at a psychiatric hospital?" Buckley has no re-direct. Carl Lee congratulates Jake, and the attorneys adjourn to chambers.During the three-hour recess, Jake avoids Harry Rex and drives to his childhood home in Karaway where he visits his boyhood room. It has remained unchanged. He remembers Hanna's room, now burned. Then, he rehearses his closing argument using his own notes, not Lucien's.