James Pietragallo
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This could well have been the source of information concerning the Vietnam court-martial.
Settle does not recall whether he knew about Davis' treatment in the VA hospital in Fayetteville.
So they said the criticism β the main criticism that is leveled at Settle is his failure to bring out the fact that Davis was taking lithium β
and that he was being treated for depression by the VA on an outpatient basis.
Lithium is a widely used drug to counter manic depressive back in the day.
So the problem is I think here is I don't think it β I don't think unless that was in discovery, it is not something he could know.
He can't just know it because he knows the guy and bring it up.
That wouldn't be fair.
It has to be something that came in through discovery.
He's saying some of the stuff, the Vietnam stuff, the other stuff.
But they're saying β Simmons is saying, look, you knew this shit about this guy.
It was up to you to bring it all up to try to get me out of jail.
And he's like, well, it wasn't really fair.
So it's not really fair that he was cross-examining this guy is what's not fair.
So they said after all that, this is an examination of Davis where they said, I see no signs of schizophrenia.
He smiles.
He has full range of affect.
He senses his behavior as sociopathic and is a self-reflective, no hallucinations or delusions.