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Article: GILCHRIST CALLED 'PSYCHOTIC' BY DEFENSE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 31, 1989
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Lonnie L. Gilchrist Jr., the former stockbroker accused of
murder, was "psychotic, a crazy man who was not criminally
responsible" and unable "to conform his conduct to the requirements
of the law" when he shot his ex-boss, George W. Cook, dead last
April 7, Gilchrist's attorney told a Suffolk Superior Court jury
yesterday.
However, prosecutor Ronald Moynahan told the jury that he
would prove Gilchrist had planned to kill Cook, who had fired him
the day before, and that the killing was "malice aforethought, an
act of premeditation, an act of cold-blooded murder in the first
degree." Moreover, Moynahan said that Gilchrist was guilty of
"extreme cruelty and atrocity" because he had shot ...