Defense calls for brain scan of accused Central High shooter:

It’s been a while since we talked about Jamar Siler. Back in 2008, Siler is said to have shot classmate Ryan McDonald in cold blood inside the cafeteria at Central High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. To this day I have not heard a motive for the shooting. By all accounts, Ryan McDonald was nice kid who never bothered anybody.

Siler’s lawyer has been granted a motion in which he will get a brain scan for his client. It seems that the defense is trying to blame the shooting on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome because Siler’s biological mom allegedly drank while she was pregnant.

“We have enlisted the help of one of the nation’s top authorities on fetal alcohol syndrome,” Greene said. “We’re of the opinion that’s a problem Jamar has had all his life.”

“If your brain doesn’t develop, that can take the intent away,” Greene said. “We’re not going to say he didn’t (kill McDonald), but did he intend to do it? Was it premeditated?”

Again with the so-called undeveloped brains. Siler was 15 when he killed Ryan and was charged as an adult.

Siler’s brain wasn’t so undeveloped that he wasn’t able to escape briefly from the correctional facility he was being housed in.

If he knew why he was being held he knows what he was doing when he shot Ryan.

I’ll give them this much, it is an original defense. Not a good one but original.