CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WV News) — The state won what may be the final motion battle heading into the late August trial for Harrison County murder suspect Dennis Allen High.

High's court-appointed lawyers, Alex Harclerode and Christopher M. Wilson, earlier in the case had sought permission to retain an expert to conduct a criminal responsibility/diminished capacity evaluation of High through West Virginia Code 27-6A-4.

Part of the expert's opinion — that PTSD from a prior incident when High was stabbed during a home invasion didn't play a role in High's alleged actions in this homicide — apparently didn't come out the way the defense expected.

So during Thursday's hearing, Assistant Prosecutor Gina Renzelli, for Prosecutor Rachel Romano, said the state wanted the option of using that informa

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