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prossed the charges against Douglas and then reactivated them after the defendant returned to Rappahannock and moved into Marx's family's house.)
Mistrial Requested
Abandoning his decision to plead guilty, Douglas next asked for a mistrial on the grounds that his witnesses weren't present and that his mental records had been made a part of the case without his having the right to cross examine the doctors responsible for the records.
Robertson denied his motion, noting that he'd already ruled the testimony from the missing witnesses irrelevant and that the medical records had never been presented as evidence to the jury.
After another recess—one of many called throughout the day—the jury returned to the courtroom to hear Douglas testify from the witness stand.
A resident of Richmond and a machinist by trade. Douglas said he'd met Marx in Central State Mental Hospital while both were inmates there in 1974. The defendant reported that Marx was in on a misdemeaner charge that was later nol prossed and said he was in as the result of a domestic dispute. (Douglas was earlier convicted of three counts of attempted murder involving his former wife.)
Douglas said that he knew from the start that Marx was an imposter. “He said he was Jesus Christ in the flesh and
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