SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- The evidence portion of the trial of Persia Nelson, the mother accused of killing her 10-month-old daughter after police found the infant in a utility pipe in 2024, concluded Tuesday. The case will now move to closing arguments on Wednesday.

The people called Dr. Stewart Harris, an emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, to the stand on Tuesday. Harris testified that given his medical background and review of security footage of Nelson, she was “clinically sober and cognitively functional.”

Dr. Harris also said he walked the route Nelson had walked and said it was "nothing like going for a walk in the woods. It was like stepping off a ship into the middle of the ocean." He said that her alleged memory loss made no physiological sense.

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