At My Purple Heart Ceremony, My Stepmother Swung a Folding Chair Into My Arm—Then My Father Looked Down Instead of Protecting Me
History.
The defense suggested Gertrude had experienced:
“acute emotional dysregulation.”
Possible.
Not a magic eraser.
They also initially floated the argument that she intended to strike:
“near me”
rather than directly at me.
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