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HEY were on their way back to Philadel- T phia from a vacation in Michigan last July. Karen Weaver, husband Steve and their two small sons had just settled into their THE BRUTAL seats aboard their Delta connection in Cincinnati when Karen became aware of a small scraping sound. She wondered to her- self: “What could that possibly be?” The noise appeared to be coming from behind TRIP DOWN her, so she positioned herself in such a A tale about Alonzo Spellman, way that allowed her to see between the seatbacks. It was then that she caught a his illness, and a terrifying flight narrow glimpse of him: this very large that landed him in jail man in the act of stroking his beard with a comb — up one side, then the other, again By MARK KRAM and again and again. And he was talking to himself in a low yet agitated voice, switching from subject to subject in what Weaver would later remember as “a stream of gibberish.” The young woman arched an eyebrow. The jet sat on the runway for close to an hour, during which the passenger only grew louder and began straying off on scary tangents — including Osama bin Laden and the possibility that a bomb had been planted on board. Weaver says now that she should have alerted a flight attendant at this point, that perhaps he could have been removed while the plane was still on the ground. But before she knew it they were up in the air, so she focused her at- tention on her 31⁄2-year-old son, engaging him in heightened con- versation in an effort to drown out the chatter behind them. When the passenger began spew- ing not just odd nonsense but vul- ...... See SPELLMAN Page 108

SOURCES Material for this story was drawn from a variety of sources, including interviews with the chief participants, Steve and Karen Weaver, and others; court testimony and related legal documents; and prior accounts PATRICIA BECK/Detroit Free Press by newspapers and wire services. Alonzo Spellman appears Through his attorney, Alonzo in Oakland County Spellman declined to be (Mich.) court in Novem- interviewed for this article. ber 2001, less than a Additionally, numerous phone month after the Lions messages left for his mother, released him. Dorothy, and his sister, Lorraine, were not returned.

PAGE 110 PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2003 ALONZO’S NUMBERS FLIGHT FROMHELL Player — Dimitrius Underwood 1— who used Spellman as an SPELLMAN gional High School in Mount Hol- adviser while a member of the Continued from Page 110 ly, N.J., to open up vistas and Cowboys in 2000; both have point the way for him. School- conditions diagnosed as bipolar...... work had not come easy for Spell- Team MVP after recording nine gar invective, Weaver finally man, yet he and Mackara worked tackles for loss, three sacks, 1 summoned a flight attendant, hard on it, even as Spellman be- three passes defensed and four fumbles during his junior season who approached the man and po- came a target of fierce razzing by with Ohio State. litely asked him to behave. opposing fans. Whenever he Career pro interception, in Weaver would later remember stepped to the foul line on the bas- 1 1994, for 31 yards. he assaulted her with a “verbal ketball court, the chant would Year, $3.06 million contract rampage.” swell and echo through the gym- 4 Spellman signed with the He just would not stop. nasium: “SAT! SAT! SAT!” So it Bears in 1992. And Weaver became increas- pleased Mackara deeply to see Sacks as a member of the ingly annoyed. Her hands trem- how far Spellman had come as 5 Cowboys in 1999. bled with anger. they sat across from each other Tackles in Oct. 10, 1999, loss She then stood up at her seat, at dinner that evening, how the 5 to Eagles. whirled around and looked the variety of Letters a day he was getting passenger hard in the face. “Ex- hardships he 5 from colleges while a junior at cuse me,” she said evenly. “Would had faced as a Rancocas Valley High School in you mind not using such profani- “He just had youth had Mount Holly, N.J. He said then: ty? I am traveling with two young to get it out been galva- “Our athletic director [Carmen children, and this is really out of nized into an to show me . . . Cella] told me the other day that hand. Could you please try?” accomplished I was going to have to get my Seated behind Weaver in Row he was no adult. Oddly, own mailbox.” 21 on Delta Flight 2038 that longer the what Sacks in his senior season at evening was Alonzo Spellman, Mackara re- pupil I once 14 Rancocas Valley. the former NFL defensive line- members Quarterback pressures in man then in the unrelenting grip knew but a years later is 22 1999, which led the Cow- of bipolar disorder. He was chap- the comput- boys. responsible eroned in this wildly manic state erized ad- adult.” Children who were aided by by his mother and sister, who had dress book 23 the Spellman Foundation, which was designed to provide picked him up in Las Vegas with RAJ MACKARA Spellman had the intention of taking him to a with him. tutors, counseling and after- Spellman’s high school enrichment programs for psychiatric hospital back home in school mentor “It looked this group of fifth-graders. If South Jersey. The 6-4, 330-pound so small in his they kept their grades up, the Spellman had been in a long free big hands, but foundation promised a full col- fall since his condition was diag- he just had to lege scholarship. Four years lat- nosed in 1998, highlighted by al- get it out to er, in 1999, it had to be dissolved cohol and illegal drug use, erratic show me how organized he had when he was unable to fund it. sprees that led to altercations become — how he was no longer Wins in 27 games by Ranco- with police and the dissolution of the pupil I once knew but a re- 24 cas Valley’s basketball team his once-promising football ca- sponsible adult,” Mackara says. in 1988-89, aided by Spellman, reer. Because Spellman would “He was still young and learning, who averaged 15.4 points and 14.4 rebounds. not accept the very troubling fact but he wanted to show me that he that he had a potentially deadly had coped and adapted. And I re- Lifetime sacks as a pro, in- illness and needed to stay on a member being so happy for him, 43 cluding a career-high 81⁄2 for the Bears in 1995. closely monitored program of because he and I had been very Size of his suit as a junior in medication, a seasoned flight close.” 45 high school. crew and 138 passengers found The former coach pauses. “We themselves in an utterly terrify- File photo talked less and less after that,” he Tackles for Ohio State as a A two-sport star at Rancocas Valley Regional High School, 52 sophomore in 1990, earning ing drama that U.S. District Alonzo Spellman led the football team in 1987 to the South adds. “You know how it goes. The All-Big Ten honors and designa- Court Judge Stewart Dalzall ulti- Jersey Group 3 football title, and the basketball team in 1989 to young move on. But I can still see tion by The Sporting News as mately called “a nightmare.” its first league title in 25 years. him sitting there at dinner as if to the second-best defensive end Imagine yourself in their place say, ‘I have grown up. And I am in the country. for just a second: Here you are, doing OK.’ ” Tackles in 1996, his career strapped in your seat in that slips into the lavatory and stays frozen in their seats. How Spellman became some- 78 high, as a defensive end for crammed cabin, and this big guy there with the door locked. Sud- Freund would later say, “I just thing less than OK is a cautionary the Bears. — or as one passenger later de- denly, you hear this agitated man wanted to see what had set him tale of just how destructive un- Career regular-season scribed him as “this solid brick say that he is going to tear the off, if it had been something Delta treated bipolar disorder can be. 83 games, in nine seasons. wall” — is yelling at this young emergency door off, so you begin had done. Like losing his bags.” Wild instability set in under the Tackles in his senior season woman, who is so upset by his to think to yourself: What can I guise of the usual ups and downs 104 at Rancocas Valley. lewd comments that she eventu- do to stop him? The captain, Early accolades as the years passed, and plagued His listed playing weight as ally dissolves into tears. Her hus- Robert D. Freund, radios in and him both on and off the field. He 292 a pro. band is sitting across from her, asks for priority handling. The It was sometime during his was All-America at Rancocas, The Christmas season he but at just 5-8 and 150, he realizes plane lands and you see him walk first few years with the Chicago All-Big Ten at Ohio State and a 1999 participated in the Cow- he has no chance whatsoever of back and approach the passen- Bears that Alonzo Spellman No. 22 pick in the first round of boys-Salvation Army Angel Tree, successfully stepping in with ger, who holds up his large hands called one of his high school the 1992 NFL draft, yet he would which purchases clothing and force. So he has to sit there as this in a display of aggression and coaches and asked him out to din- verbally spar with coaches and toys for children in need. person calls his wife a “whore” says: “You see this, I can feel the ner at a place in Cherry Hill. Spell- be looked upon as an under- — Paul Vigna and his sons “sorry white boys.” adrenaline rushing through my man had depended on Raj achiever during his pro career One passenger becomes so upset hands, I am about to rip your Mackara, then the assistant foot- ...... by the escalating scene that he throat out.” Fear has everyone ball coach at Rancocas Valley Re- See SPELLMAN Next Page

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SPELLMAN bet you lift up your dress and let Continued from Preceding Page AT THE CENTER OF THE MAELSTROM your husband bleep you while Alonzo Spellman, along with his mother and sister, boarded a Delta MD-88 jet for the trip from Cincinnati your kids are watching.’ ” ...... to Philadelphia last July 23. From there, the trip turned into a harrowing journey for all those on the plane, Weaver could not believe her with the Bears, Cowboys and Li- particularly those sitting near him. As the flight progresses: ears. “And I never said another ons. Mom Dorothy got a new word to him,” she says. “I just sat house when he signed his big con- 2 He then begins 3 A passenger is so fright- 4 After landing, there and took it. He called me a tract with the Bears, and he be- yelling at Karen’s ened he leaves his seat police board at the whore, talked about my private gan a foundation in Chicago that husband Steve, sit- and runs to the bathroom, rear of the plane parts . . . and he is yelling this. The promised to underwrite educa- ting across the aisle where he remains the rest while its captain, whole plane could hear what he tional scholarships for 23 under- with their other son. of the flight. Robert D. Freund, was saying, and privileged youths, yet the wealth leaves the cabin and at that point I slipped away on this and that, in- approaches started to cry.” cluding settlements with three Spellman. After a Spellman brief verbal women with whom he had chil- then realized exchange, Spellman “The whole dren. His sister, Lorraine, told gets up and walks by that Steve was the court that Spellman “had a Freund and then the plane could her husband, at tendency to overgive” to people Weavers, huddled at hear what which point he and that “it seemed like his mon- the front of the glared at him he was ey was dwindling pretty quickly.” plane. and said, “What Says Mackara, “He just always saying, and are you doing to wanted to do the right thing.” at that do about it, Bipolar disorder is a chronic dad?” point I condition characterized by the Steve looked started to cycling in and out of periods of 1 at him from soaring highs that can be accom- Spellman, seated in cry.” across the aisle panied by delusional rages, rela- Row 21, directs his and weighed his tive normalcy, and crushing lows invective at Karen KAREN options. “He Weaver and her son, WEAVER that can come upon an individual sitting in front of him. was talking to with such force that the simple Karen and I was act of getting out of bed can be thinking, ‘What overwhelming. Caused by a am I going to chemical imbalance in the brain, Rows do?’ And then it does not commonly reveal itself he started in on me. I had our until the late teens or even well youngest son and I was slipping a into the 20s, at which point it can diaper on him because it was get- become a slippery slope unless ting late and Spellman said, ‘Oh, recognized and treated. Spellman you use those cheap kind of dia- was diagnosed with the condition pers. What kind of a father are in March 1998 when he flew into a you?’ I guess I could have poked SOURCE: Eyewitness accounts, rage and barricaded himself in- Daily News research him in the eye, but then I would side the suburban Chicago home have died and he would have fall- of his publicist because a doctor BRAD J. GUIGAR/Daily News en on my son.” who was supposed to give him an Dorothy just gazed from her NFL-ordered steroid test did not Oakland Pro Bowl center Barret medicating at certain junctures Lorraine immediately caught a window seat in Row 21 at the pass- show up. Although Spellman was Robbins, a bipolar sufferer who with amphetamines, cognac and plane to Las Vegas. They found ing clouds as this was happening; unarmed and did not appear to reportedly had stopped taking marijuana. His sister, Lorraine, Spellman in what Lorraine de- Lorraine sat in the row behind. be holding anyone hostage, a his medication and was barred by conceded in court that “there was scribed in court as “an agitated Both had seen this side of Spell- SWAT team surrounded the his coach from playing in the Su- never a time he was accepting” of and paranoid” state. man before and were helpless house and a police negotiator was per Bowl when he blew off prac- the fact that he was bipolar. He was pacing the floor as if when the flight attendant asked called in, in part because Spell- tice and left the team hotel for 24 Chaos just surrounded Spell- caged. them to try to calm Spellman, man spoke of committing suicide. hours to engage in a drinking man until he simply unraveled And he had jammed hotel tow- who just seemed to get increas- What became a 10-hour standoff binge. Spellman was equally un- one evening last July in suburban els in every airway leading into ingly agitated. While they would ended when former Chicago easy when it came to taking med- Detroit. He appeared at the Dear- the room. later come under sharp criticism teammate Mike Singletary ap- ication. Cut by Chicago in June born home of his aunt, barged in from their fellow passengers — peared on the scene and spoke 1998 and then let go that summer and announced he was going to A wave of fear one approached Lorraine in the calmly to Spellman, who agreed by Jacksonville, he told the Chica- “bleep up” his cousin over some baggage area and told her, “We to undergo observation for 72 go Tribune in an interview that money. Told that his cousin was So when Karen Weaver told should not have had to put up hours at Good Shepherd Hospi- November that he planned to play not there, Spellman sped off in Spellman she was traveling with with that!” — Lorraine told the tal. Police found him the follow- again but that under no circum- his SUV, nearly running over a two small children and asked him court that their overriding con- ing day dressed in only his hospi- stances would he agree to take a child on a bicycle and a woman if he would please stop using such cern had been to get Spellman tal pants and walking barefoot medication — even if an NFL holding a baby. He was arrested profanity, it was as if she had home so that he could receive along Illinois Highway 22. team demanded that he do so as a with an open bottle of cognac on poured a cup of hot coffee in his treatment. Lorraine said that Getting someone to accept a condition of employment. He told the front seat, charged with lap. “Bleep you,” he replied, “Who Spellman “talked to himself” on bipolar diagnosis is problematic; the Tribune that he had tried a drunken driving and later set the bleep do you think you are?” the trip in from Las Vegas — and the highs that one experiences medication briefly but said that free. Later that week, with the fi- Weaver sat in her seat in stunned that this annoyed some of the pas- during episodes of mania are just he did not care for the emotional nancial help of a good Samaritan, silence as Spellman zeroed in on sengers seated near him — but too exhilarating. Even if he or she numbness he experienced taking he took a bus to Las Vegas. There, her. he did not get out of hand until he agrees at some point to go on it. He added, “I know everything’s he called home to his mother, “He started criticizing me boarded his connection in Cincin- medication, there is a strong like- all right with ’Zo.” Court docu- Dorothy, who helped him check about the way I looked, the lihood they will become noncom- ments filed in the Delta case indi- into a hotel by giving the clerk a clothes I had on, the type of moth- ...... pliant. This happened recently to cated that Spellman was self- credit-card number. Dorothy and er I was,” she says. “He said, ‘I See SPELLMAN Page 106

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SPELLMAN them. Freund told the court at Continued from Page 109 sentencing: “The closer I got to where Spellman was sitting, the ...... more terrified people looked.” nati. He announced that he pre- Freund added that Spellman told ferred to drive back to South Jer- him, “You look like a white bleep sey. Dorothy twice asked him to who tried to settle down once the plane was handcuff me airborne, but Spellman became “The closer one time,” and enraged, told her to “shut the I got to announced that bleep up,” and reminded her that where “the police are he had not wanted to get on the going to have to plane to begin with. Says Karen, Spellman take me off in a “So she just turned and looked was sitting, body bag.” out the window again.” the more Freund spoke Other passengers began calmly to him, shooting Spellman uneasy terrified asking, “What glances. When Freund asked him people would it take for over the PA to settle down, that looked.” you and I to he was scaring the other passen- walk off this gers, Spellman yelled back that ROBERT D. plane?” With he was “not going to be quiet for FREUND the police on anybody” and invited him to come Delta captain board in the back to try to stop him. Visions of rear of the 9/11 only added to the increasing plane, Spellman level of concern in the cabin. Fear- began walking ful that Spellman was going to up the aisle toward the front, charge the cockpit and crash the where the Weavers had joined plane, passenger John Liebenthal their children. Karen saw him told authorities he “started to BOB LANGER/Chicago Tribune coming and huddled in closely think of things that he could use The first signs of trouble for Spellman: a police standoff outside Chicago in March 1998. with her children. Steve won- as a weapon to subdue Spellman” dered if Spellman was going to if it came to that. He decided that a passenger became so upset that der his arm, carried them up the Freund told the passengers to “slug me as he walked by,” and he would use the edge of his com- he would not come out of the lava- aisle and parked them safely in remain seated, that the police gripped the pen in his hand just puter. Passenger Patricia Fanty tory, and against FAA regula- the galley. He then picked up a would be boarding from the rear in case. But Spellman approached said that she was “very fright- tions was permitted to stay there pen he saw laying on the counter. of the plane. When he walked him and then passed by without ened” of Spellman and that sev- during landing. When Freund Says Steve, “It was like: I have no back to Row 21 to investigate why even what appeared to be a glim- eral male passengers “were landed the plane in Philadelphia chance against this guy that big, Spellman had been so upset, he mer of recognition. Says Steve, “I watching him and planning to at 9:12 p.m., Steve Weaver imme- but I figured if I had to I would could see the fear in the faces of ...... take him down if he got up.” And diately swept his two children un- stick the pen in his eye.” the passengers as he passed See SPELLMAN Next Page

ONE STORY; A BIGGER PICTURE This story focuses on Alonzo Spellman, but one of its initiatives is to document the devastating effects of manic depression. According to webmd.com, nearly 19 million Americans suffer from some type of depres- sion. Researchers say one in four women and one in 10 men will be diagnosed with depression within their lifetime. Making the condition worse is a patient’s unwillingness to take the prescribed medication. Often, they haven’t even recognized that the condition exists.

BIPOLAR DISORDER UNIPOLAR DEPRESSION Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder characterized by mood People with unipolar depression swings from mania (exaggerated feeling of well-being, stimu- suffer from periods of depression lation, and grandiosity in which a person can lose touch with only. Studies show that they tend to reality) to depression (overwhelming feelings of sadness, anxi- be older than those who are bipolar. ety, and low self-worth, which can include suicidal thoughts The disorder is marked by dimin- and suicide attempts). The periods of highs and lows are called ished interest or pleasure in nearly episodes, with each rotation from one extreme to the other all activities, significant weight loss called a cycle. Abuse and violent behavior is common in the or gain, insomnia, fatigue and feel- most severe form of the disorder. Some celebrities who have ings of worthlessness or inappropri- been confirmed as bipolar: ate guilt. Some celebrities who have been confirmed as unipolar: ALEXANDER ALVAREZ/DAILY NEWS ➤ Patty Duke ➤ Murray Pezim: (Anna Pearce): Canadian ➤ Several of the many medications that can be prescribed actress, writer financier Roseanne Arnold: actress, writer, for bipolar disorder include, from left: Paxil, Depakote, ➤ Connie Francis: ➤ Charley Pride: comedienne actress, musician ➤ Celexa and Zyprexa. In the case of Spellman and Barret singer ➤ Barret Robbins: athlete Dick Cavett: writer, media person- Robbins, of the Oakland Raiders, who was kicked off the ➤ Peter Gabriel: ➤ Axl Rose: ality musician musician ➤ team the day before this year’s Super Bowl, both players ➤ Charles Haley: ➤ Ted Turner: Tony Dow: actor, director athlete entrepreneur ➤ had stopped taking their medication before their nation- ➤ Kristy McNichol: actress ➤ Dimitrius Underwood: ath- Kitty Dukakis: former ally publicized episodes. Special thanks to Molly Tritt ➤ Spike Mulligan: Massachusetts first lady comic lete ➤ and David Jaspan, of Hahnemann University Hospital, for ➤ Robin Williams: William Styron: writer actor actor, ➤ assisting with the photograph. ➤ Abigail Padgett: mystery comedian James Taylor: musician writer — Paul Vigna Source: anxietysecrets.com and yahoo.com

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SPELLMAN Steve have had to sit down with Continued from Preceding Page their children at such an inno- cent age and try to explain such ...... adult concepts as “obscenity, vio- looked him in the eyes and I could lence, hatefulness and fear.” see that there was nobody behind Steve adds that the incident was them.” “particularly emasculating” to Spellman got off the plane and him in that he was powerless to began walking through the air- protect his family. “Whatever I port. Armed police were nearby, would have done would had made but according to the Weavers and the situation worse,“ he says. “I other eyewitnesses, they seemed understand that, but here was fearful of tangling with the over- this man, calling my wife vulgar sized Spellman. When Karen things, and there was absolutely Weaver “literally grabbed one of nothing I could do.” the officers by the arm” and Karen says that the incident asked him why Spellman had not “brings up larger societal issues,” been placed in handcuffs, she which is to say: How do you get says that she was told, “We do adults who have psychiatric not have the capacity to handle problems to properly address someone like that.” Dalzall later them? “And you have to wonder observed in his sentencing mem- how equipped airlines or depart- orandum that police displayed ment stores or any [public entity] “indifference and abject cow- are to handle people who are ardice.” Police argued that they walking around every day un- acted appropriately, given the medicated and potentially vio- circumstances. In a letter that lent,” she says. “I just know that appeared in the Feb. 17 edition of the people on that plane were the Daily News, Lt. Mike Lista of powerless to do anything.” the city Police Airport Unit said, Spellman implored Dalzall to in part: “Could Spellman have place him in a treatment center been taken into custody? Certain- and not a jail cell. In the court- ly, but the final outcome could JOHN F. RHODES/ room that day, some members of have been disastrous. A man that Dallas Morning News his family whispered among size, and mentally unstable, Alonzo Spellman runs over themselves: “What good is it go- would need an army of officers to Warren Moon in 1995, then is ing to do anybody by sticking him run down by Cowboys owner get him under control ... In the in a cage?” The defense asked Jerry Jones after getting end, not one person was injured, thrown out of a game in 2000. that Spellman be placed in a pro- including Spellman.” gram sponsored by the NFL Spellman remained in the bag- Players Association in Florida, gage area for close to an hour. In- and added that with proper care stead of taking Spellman immedi- that was why I pled guilty. I have Spellman could well even play in ately to a psychiatric facility, had a chance to see myself the league again at some point. Dorothy and Lorraine took him through the eyes of other people. But to a certain extent that con- to Willingboro, N.J. Spellman CHARLES BENNETT/Associated Press I know now that I need to take cerned Winter, who claimed in then dropped by to see his broth- my medicine.” her motion for an upward depar- er, John, and flew into another He paused and added, “I know ture in sentencing guidelines rage. He tore off the screen door what he refers to as unawareness him. He had pleaded guilty in ear- I need help.” that Spellman had yet to address and later pushed an air condition- syndrome. “What you have to re- ly January in Philadelphia federal The judge absorbed this and “the issues underlying the vio- er through a window as he alize is that none of this would court to interfering with a flight eyed Spellman, who stood before lent acts . . . that have brought stormed through the house look- have happened if he had been tak- crew and two counts of simple as- him with hands folded. The judge the defendant to where he is to- ing for his brother. Dorothy called ing his medication,” Amador told sault on an aircraft. In custody then began gravely, “You heard day.” Winter added that the ac- the police. Spellman then sat the court. “Mr. Spellman is still since his arrest back in August, he what these people had to say?” knowledged use by the defen- down on the curb and was talking not 100 percent convinced he is appeared calm as he heard the Spellman nodded and replied, dant of amphetamines in order to himself when patrol cars ap- bipolar, but he told me he is will- case against him summarized “Yes, sir.” to stay “up” and aggressive peared on the scene. Police es- ing to consider it as a possibility. again by Nancy Beam Winter, the “They were scared,” the judge enough to play football argued corted him to the psychiatric The trouble we run into in treat- assistant U.S. attorney, and the said. “And it is unfortunate that against his “needs for better ward at Lourdes Health System- ing bipolar patients is that it be- parade of witnesses who took the that had to happen.” mental health.” Dalzall granted Rancocas Hospital in Willing- comes difficult to teach someone stand to give their account of what Chances are that no one who that upward departure and sen- boro, where he remained for a about an illness they do not be- had happened. When Winter and was on that plane will ever look at tenced Spellman to an 18-month week until federal agents arrest- lieve they have.” defense attorney Judith S. Gracey flying quite the same again; a few prison term. ed him. He has since been in the He paused and added, “Their were finally through, the judge said they would think twice about The judge said Spellman, 31, Federal Detention Center in Cen- brain is telling them that nothing asked Spellman if he would like to even getting on a plane again. would receive “blue-chip treat- ter City. is wrong with them.” address the court. Spellman said Karen Weaver says one of the lin- ment” in the prison system. Court testimony by psycholo- he did and walked slowly toward gering effects of her encounter Spellman nodded again. gist Dr. Xavier Amador indicated Lasting effects the bench. with Spellman is that she has had At which point Judge Dalzall Spellman has since responded The judge smiled and asked, “thoughts of him coming after me told him: “You have many years well on mood stabilizers and an- On the February day that “So how are you doing, Mr. Spell- and my family in revenge.” She still ahead of you. And I hope that tipsychotic drugs, yet cautioned Dalzall handed down his sentence, man?” says her oldest son began using a you can leave your demons be- that one of the problems in treat- Spellman was led into Courtroom “Doing fine, judge,” he began. certain word of profanity the boy hind.” ★ ing bipolar patients is their lack 10-B in a green prison jumpsuit “And I would just like to say I un- had overheard Spellman using, of insight into the disorder or with his hands cuffed in front of derstand that I was wrong, and and it upsets her that she and Send e-mail to [email protected]

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