Posted on 12/08/2003 1:05:12 PM PST by Shermy
CHESAPEAKE, Va. - Lee Boyd Malvo believed John Allen Muhammad would kill him if he ever deviated from the plan in last year's sniper spree, a psychologist testified Monday at Malvo's murder trial.
Muhammad's two rules for the pair's mission were "whatever it takes" and "no turning back," said Dewey Cornell, a University of Virginia psychologist who interviewed Malvo more than 20 times after his arrest.
Muhammad often told Malvo that Malvo should shoot and kill Muhammad if he ever strayed from the mission, Cornell said. Malvo assumed the same would happen to him if he deviated, according to the witness.
"He viewed it as deadly serious that there was no turning back on this mission," Cornell said.
Malvo's lawyers are pursuing an insanity defense, trying to convince the jury that Malvo was under the psychological sway of sniper mastermind Muhammad, 42. Malvo, 18, could get the death penalty if convicted.
Cornell also testified about Malvo's intense interest in the movie "The Matrix," which he watched more than 100 times. Cornell said the movie influenced Malvo's behavior, as did violent video games played by the pair, including "Halo" and "Rainbow Six."
The judge allowed the jury to see a short, violent clip of the film, despite prosecutors' objection that the clip was out of context and irrelevant to Malvo's case. Jurors also saw video-game clips.
"There is compelling evidence that exposure to entertainment violence desensitizes people to violence, makes it seem more rational," he said.
Cornell said the movie "seemed to represent the situation" Malvo was in, or at least how Malvo viewed his situation — with a hero chosen by a black father figure to lead a revolution against "an evil government ... that has people oppressed to the point where they don't even know they're oppressed. There's sort of a rampage of violence ... for the greater good of freeing oppressed people," Cornell said.
Defense attorneys have said that Muhammad taught his protege that black Americans were God's chosen people but were being oppressed by a white government.
"Lee came to believe there could be a revolution if he followed John Muhammad's teachings," Cornell said.
Malvo confessed to pulling the trigger in all the shootings during the three-week spree in the Washington area last fall that left 10 people dead. But Malvo's lawyers have contended the confession was bogus and that it was Malvo's way of protecting the man he saw as his father.
As a child, Malvo hunted and killed cats with a slingshot, one of the first signs of emotional problems in an otherwise "strikingly obedient child," Cornell said.
Malvo once had a pet cat but grew to hate the animals, Cornell said, because his mother would beat Malvo when the cat would sleep in Malvo's bed and soil the sheets.
"If he saw a stray cat he would become angry and shoot the stray cat. He hit some of the cats, and probably killed some of the cats," Cornell testified. "This was probably the most serious problem in his childhood."
Well, certainly both sides want to keep a lot about Malvo quiet.
about 4-5 of his drawings related, in part, to the "Matrix"
Some more to Black "National" themes.
But the preponderence dealt with Jihad, Osama and such. Both sides are ignoring them and creating seemingly bogus, or at least incomplete stories.
And see how they dance around John's "mission." They don't say what it was. It wasn't racial, that's for sure...just look at the targets.
And the difference between him and your run-of-the-mill terrorist is…?
No one posting here should be ignorant of the facts of the matter, because Malvo's drawings, interrogations, and other material were discussed here on FR last week.
ALL THE MALVO EVIDENCE IS POSTED HERE:
http://www.fairfax.va.us/courts/cases/malvocase.htm
And the fact is that Malvo and his accomplice were both Black Muslims, following the Nation Of Islam's Louis Farrakhan, and carrying-out a private jihad in honor or Osama bin Laden, Farrakhan himself, and other Muslim "leaders."
In one interrogation, Malvo unambiguously states that they killed black victims in order to throw police off the trail, and their objective was simply to kill as many people as possible in furtherance of their Muslim beliefs.
Of course, it never would have entered Malvo's mushy brain to shoot Muhammad instead of an innocent. Fearful of Muhammad? I think not. He killed for nothing more than to get a 'high five' from Muhammad.
This Malvo is an evil and twisted psycho. Anyone who's seen the evidence knows that.
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