AUSA: What is emotional abuse?
Dr. Hughes: Putting down our partner, feeling like a piece of crap
AUSA: What about financial dependence?
Dr. Hughes: The abuses controls housing and transportation. Taking away her laptop-
Defense: Objection!
Judge: Sustained.

AUSA Steiner: Are you familiar with love bombing?
Dr. Hughes: That honeymoon phase - the abuser showers her with gifts and affection to get her back.
AUSA: Does the attempt to leave happen over time?
Dr. Hughes: Yes, it takes multiple attempts

AUSA: Which is the most common coping mechanism?
Dr. Hughes: Trying to work it out, because of the trauma bond. You don't want to lose your partner.
AUSA: Personal coping mechanisms - how does placating or appeasing work?
Dr. Hughes: We're trying to avoid abuse

AUSA: What is minimization?
Dr. Hughes: The victim says, Maybe they had a bad day at work, maybe they were intoxicated. It's a way to stay in the relationship, but it increases their risk. It's not a long term strategy, it gets from one assaultive episode to next

AUSA: What about the power relation?
Dr. Hughes: A person can have power as principal of a school. The victim asks, who is going to believe me?
AUSA: When does the victim finally speak?
Dr. Hughes: In a safe environment. Or after psychological help.

AUSA Steiner: What type of language do victims use when they first speak of it?
Dr. Hughes: They minimize, they are piecemeal. They remember the chipping paint on the ceiling, the smell of alcohol on the perpetrator's breath

[Sidebar and then cross examination - it will be by Jonathan Bach, Alexandra Shapiro's husband, only recently brought on as Combs' 10th lawyer]
Combs' Bach: Your clients, you observe them closely, their cognitive style
Dr. Hughes: Yes...

Combs' Bach: People don't fit into boxes, right?
Dr. Hughes: There are categories.
Bach: But you have to listen to particular individuals, right?
Dr. Hughes: I'm not divorced from my training.

Combs' Bach: When you do forensic work, you want a lot of sources of information, right?
Dr. Hughes: If it's relevant.
Bach: You look at police reports, witness reports, and the like, correct?
Dr. Hughes: Correct.
Bach: You're familiar with malingering?
Dr Hughes: I am

This is always such a tricky place to me, correlating grown people's desires to please their partners in their romantic relationships vs coercive, manipulative and devious behavior.

Combs' Bach: People can fabricate emotional responses, correct?
Dr. Hughes: They can.
Judge: Mr. Bach, should be break here?
Bach: I don't have a good cliff-hanger

Judge: Break

We are currently on break

After Dr Hughes, the next witness will be George Kaplan.

He was an employee who quit after witnessing physical abuse.

The prosecution just asked to grant Kaplan immunity during the break.

[But wait - during the break, they bring in George Kaplan, "to invoke" his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination]
Judge Subramanian: Welcome
AUSA: Did you receive a subpoena?
Kaplan: Yes.
AUSA: Do you intend not to answer, on the 5th AM grounds?

Kaplan: Yes.
AUSA Comey: Your Honor, please sign the immunity order.
Judge: Has he read it?
No.
Judge: Read it first...

AUSA Comey: The attorney says he's read it.
Judge: I will sign the immunity order.
AUSA: The government will seek to admit GX 69A -

I swear when Cudi makes it to the trial either tomorrow or Friday.....

i appreciate your work so much

but i feel like some of the things you post aren't interesting at all, could you post the juicy s*** instead of absolutely everything ?

I disagree

I want everything

okay fair enough

This a misquote, he said d**** shaped like Obama. Probably ecstasy, they stay making it look like random s***

We are back

[They've back]
AUSA: Your Honor, we emailed you the exhibit over the break.
Combs' Agnifilo: We object to it as hearsay. The statement Thank I feel you from Mr. Combs is ambiguous. He could be saying thanks for the advice

ex-assistant testimony should be interesting today

why this sound like chatgpt