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If questioned Mr. Harris may readily agree that he can’t believe he is here today facing the possibility of a life sentence. He never thought this day would happen. He would tell the Court that he believed, because people he trusted told him, the Attorney General or someone the Court would listen to, would halt his prosecution once it was realized that what he was saying was true. If asked he would tell the Court that he took over his defense despite never going to law school or attending college at the last minute because he never thought it would get to the stage where his attorney would have to make an opening argument.

"He Who Is His Own Lawyer Has a Fool for a Client”
– Legal Adage

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According to the evaluation performed at the Court’s request and despite Mr. Harris’s failure to participate the psychologist found Mr. Harris to have a Personality Disorder Not Otherwise Specified with Narcissistic, Paranoid and Antisocial Features, 301.9 of the DSM IV:

The defendant’s presentation of paranoia, inflated self-concept, and asocial behaviors appear to be personality based. The defendant exhibited many tendencies which appeared to be of a longstanding characterological nature. A personality disorder is manifested by atypical and dysfunctional patterns of cognition, affective expression, interpersonal functioning and other behaviors. In this case, the defendant demonstrates a pattern of idiosyncratic and suspicious thinking, difficulty with most interpersonal relationships, inflated self-concept and sense of entitlement, and asocial attitudes. The defendant readily perceives events in a negative or malicious manner and quickly reacts in an argumentative, manipulative and dysfunctional manner. He is distrustful of others, views his environment with excessive suspicion and will react with hostility at perceived slights or injustice. Mr. Harris also tends to harbor resentments and unrealistic views of his own abilities.

The defendant has a grandiose sense of importance and accomplishments. He exhibits arrogant attitudes and believes others do not understand his activities. He believes he could only be understood by others of similar special status or accomplishment. Mr. Harris believes that this failure to recognize and appreciate his activities has fostered his current difficulties with the legal system. He further believes that most parties involved in his case are conspiring against him. While it is possible that such beliefs could be delusional in nature, this appears unlikely in this case due to the pervasive, stable and global nature of the beliefs in the defendant’s case. The current psychiatric nosological system allows for the labeling of a generic personality disorder with a series of descriptive specifiers. In other words, for this individual, the diagnosis of Personality Disorder with Narcissistic, Paranoid and Antisocial Features may best describe his symptoms in the personality domain found in DSM-IV-TR.

02/20/2012 273 Sentencing Memorandum as to Rufus Paul Harris filed by Rufus Paul Harris (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit US v. Parris)(Manchel, Howard) (Entered: 02/20/2012)

Doc 273 PDF file
https://viewer.zoho.com/docs/vf3bbe

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