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Lawyer says client has no memory of Alabama shootings

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The neuroscientist charged in the shooting deaths a week ago of three of her colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville does not remember what happened, her lawyer said Friday.

“She just doesn’t remember shooting these folks,” said the lawyer, Roy W. Miller, of his client, Amy Bishop. “She’s very sorry for what she’s done.”

Though he seemed to be preparing an insanity defense for his client, Mr. Miller backed away from an earlier statement to The Associated Press that his client was a “paranoid schizophrenic” who “gets at issue with people that she doesn’t need to and obsesses on it,” saying he had spoken out of turn.

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