Mitchell argued that Schreiner s mental illness had been evolving for years. One of the key elements in the trial was journals kept by Schreiner. In the year before Brown s death, he began keeping a journal of his psychedelic experiences on psilocybin that included fantastical hallucinations and feelings of paranoia.
Schreiner testified that he stopped using the drug in late 2018, but that his mental health continued to deteriorate. He began to believe that people were trying to kill him and that he was being set up to be charged as a pedophile.
Mitchell went through testimony from an expert psychiatric witness who said that Schreiner displayed symptoms necessary for a diagnosis of schizotypal personality disorder.
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To find a Saskatoon man not criminally responsible for the stabbing death of his spouse, a Queen’s Bench judge must find he was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of the offence that rendered him incapable of knowing it was wrong.
Much of that determination will hinge on whether or not Justice Ronald Mills accepts what Blake Jeffrey Schreiner said was going through his mind as he stabbed Tammy Brown 80 times in their River Heights neighbourhood home on Jan. 29, 2019.
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When a forensic psychologist asked Blake Jeffrey Schreiner why he was at Saskatchewan Hospital in March 2019, Schreiner replied, “I murdered my wife.”
Dr. Anne Pleydon testified on Monday as the final witness at Schreiner’s first-degree murder trial in Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench. She was called by defence lawyer Brad Mitchell after Crown prosecutor Melodi Kujawa opted not to call her as a Crown witness.
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