LEBANON — From diagnoses of schizophrenia and paranoia to psychosis and fraud, doctors for 11 years have differed in their opinions about killer Timothy Hancock.

        On Monday, a psychiatrist for a prosecution team trying to block Mr. Hancock's insanity plea and send him to death row offered yet another view during the final day of testimony in Mr. Hancock's murder trial. The jury is expected to begin deliberations today.

        Dr. Douglas Lehrer told a jury that Mr. Hancock has mental problems, but was not insane when he strangled child molester Jason Wagner Nov. 13, 2000, in the cell they shared at the Warren Correctional Institution.

        He described Mr. Hancock as an impulsive, deceitful man who was incapable of showing remorse and was emotionally unstable. Those traits were more consis tent with personality disorders, Dr. Lehrer said, even though a prison psychologist days before the killing had diagnosed Mr. Hancock as psychotic.

        But Dr. Lehrer contended that Mr. Hancock had exaggerated his symptoms through the years and duped other prison doctors into believing he was suffering from serious mental illness.

        That opinion, he said, was supported by prison records that showed that treatment teams at Oakwood Correctional Facility, the state's psychiatric hospital for inmates in Lima, had discharged

        Mr. Hancock back to prison four times betweenbecause they thought he was faking.

        However, a psychiatrist for the defense testified last week that Mr. Hancock suffered from a delusional disorder and was insane.

        Dr. Lehrer said he interviewed Mr. Hancock for four hours over a two-day period. The account was similar to the first of two statements Mr. Hancock gave to investigators.

        Mr. Hancock talked about messages from an imaginary friend and from God to kill Mr. Wagner after Mr. Wagner described abducting and molesting a 3-year-old Lancaster girl in 1999, made a sexual overtures, and touched Mr. Hancock's leg, Dr. Lehrer said.

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