wished the panel
could hear of the immense prestige Dr. Stacy Denton had acquired
throughout the university community over the years that she had been a
part of the Counseling Department. Not only was she widely acclaimed,
she was genuinely liked and successful as a person, in the department
she directed. At the age of 42, she had shown abilities in her field
that most did not acquire until their later years. This caused some
annoyance for her since she was constantly besieged by other counseling
agencies all over the country, to come to them.

Jane remembered that when she had felt the shackles of threat surround
her, and realized that she really had no voice or will on the
committee, she had called Stacy. Of course Stacy could not tell her
that she had counseled Diana at the time she was first charged. She
could only listen to Jane's anguish at her own impotence. It was only
after Diana had called to ask Stacy if she would be willing to sign an
affidavit for the federal court action, that Stacy could see a way to
do something. She offered to also appear as a witness at this final
Belmont hearing if it were felt she would be needed. Few people of her
stature would have waited outside the hearing room as she did, knowing
that the committee might not even hear her testimony.

She testified that she had seen Diana professionally several times and
that in her years of experience and training she had learned techniques
to determine behavior.

"I saw no evidence that Diana was lying, dissimulating or faking. I
should say that in my position here, I see many people who are in
trouble and there is a pattern to these reactions. She exhibited what
we in the profession call the typical victim reaction.

"In subsequent visits, I did a more thorough mental status exam. I
used all sorts of techniques that uncover whether a person may be
unconsciously suppressing the fact that she wrote something, or did
something.

"I believe that she could not have been lying." Stacy said succinctly.
"She was too upset, too shocked, to really fake me out."

Henry carefully distorted her words in the recommendation the committee
later signed and sent to The Pope to read, 'the psychologist found that
Diana Trenchant had a genuine victim response and truly believes
herself to be innocent.' A far, and exceedingly prejudiced, cry from
the actual testimony of the psychologist. In fact, in the six page
document, he devoted only ten l