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Calling his team of experts to the stand one by one, Darrow spelled out for the court the findings, from the elaborate pre trial examinations of Leopold, and Lowe. Offering a catalog of the boy's abnormalities. One witness testified to their dysfunctional endocrine glands. Another to the delusions that had led to their crime. This psychiatrist argue that in fact it was low And not Leopold who is responsible and that Leopold had been his servant. That there had a been a master slave relationship between the two of them. Richard had this fantasy of being a master criminal. And Nathan had the fantasy of being a slave to a king And it's that inner fantasy life that created the bond between the two boys. Referring to the two as Babe and Dickey, their childhood nicknames, the witnesses for the defence argued that both boys suffered from stunted emotional growth. Richard in particular was a little child emotionally. Still talking to his teddy bear. One psychiatrist told the court, he is infantile. I should say somewhere around four or five years old. Both boys had been neglected by their parents, both had a governess. And these governesses Exerted an enormous amount of control over the children. Nathan Leopold had been abused sexually by his governess when he was about 12 years old. With Richard Lobe, it was case that his governess virtually stepped in as a mother figure Pushed him to excel in the classroom And as he tells to the psychiatrists, he began to be so resentful that he started to lie. And Richard himself traced his crimes back to those lies that he told his governess. It took a tremendous amount of chutzpah But Clarence Darrow made the argument that these two very privileged sons of very wealthy families were actually victims. 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