Murder Med For Depression* 21/10/2000 California High Tech Vice-President Misdiagnosed with Depression: Kills Wife
 
 Summary:<br><br>Second paragraph from the end reads: &quot;Hathaway repeated statements she made during the trial that her client has bipolar and dissociative disorder but <strong>was misdiagnosed </strong>with <strong>major</strong> <strong>depression</strong> and <strong>misprescribed medication</strong>. That <strong>medication</strong>, in concert with alcohol and his own illnesses, <strong>disconnected him with reality at the time of the crime, she said.&quot;<br /></strong>______________________________________________________________________<br /><br />SAN JOSE<br />Former Executive Gets 26 Years to Life in <strong>Murder<br /></strong>THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE<br />October 21, 2000<br />Estimated printed pages: 2 <br /><img src="../localhost/C_/Program%20Files/Eudora%20Pro/Embedded/9fd4231.jpg" alt="[]" width="1" height="1" /> &nbsp;<br /><br />A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge has sentenced a former high-tech executive to 26 years to life in prison for the February 1999 stabbing death of his wife. <br />Colman M. Bowers, 46, once was a vice president with San Jose computer software firm Baydel North America Inc. On July 17, a jury convicted him of murdering his wife of 20 years, Georgina, by stabbing her in the heart with an 8-inch kitchen knife at their home in Santa Clara.<br /><br />The sentence handed down Thursday by Superior Court Judge Paul Teilh was the maximum permissible under the law.<br /><br />&quot;(The sentence is) exactly what we wanted, hoped for, expected and what he deserved,&quot; said Deputy District Attorney Terry Bowman, who prosecuted Bowers.<br /><br />During the three-week trial, Bowman told the jury that Bowers was obsessed with a Las Vegas prostitute and attacked his sleeping wife in their bedroom because she threatened to leave him and take their 10-year-old daughter home to their native Ireland.<br /><br />One of the couple&#39;s three children now works in the Bay Area, Bowman said. The other two are living with their mother&#39;s family in Ireland.<br /><br />Palo Alto defense attorney Kleigh Hathaway, who represented Bowers since his arrest, said Thursday that an appeal will be filed in the case.<br /><br />&quot;Today was yet again another tragedy,&quot; she said. &quot;Mr. Bowers is now going to start his sentence of 26 years to life with really not any practical or realistic chance of being paroled.&quot;<br /><br />Hathaway repeated statements she made during the trial that her client has bipolar and dissociative disorder but was misdiagnosed with major <strong>depression</strong> and misprescribed <strong>medication</strong>. That <strong>medication</strong>, in concert with alcohol and his own illnesses, disconnected him with reality at the time of the crime, she said.<br /><br />&quot;We must have been in different trials,&quot; Bowman said. &quot;The evidence came in very cleanly, and the jury did the correct thing according to that evidence.&quot; <br />Edition:&nbsp; FINAL / PENINSULA<br />Section:&nbsp; NEWS<br />Page:&nbsp; A18<br />Column:&nbsp; PENINSULA AND SOUTH BAY REPORT<br />Index Terms: Colman M. Bowers<strong>; </strong>Georgina Bowers; CRIME<strong>; </strong>BAY AREA<strong>; MURDER<br /></strong>Record Number:&nbsp; 3144249 <br /><br />OpenURL Article Bookmark (right click, and copy the link location):<br /><a href="http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&amp;rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:SFCB&amp;rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&amp;rft_dat=0EB4F96345CA30BB&amp;svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated4&amp;req_dat=0FC00B934DD580D0">SAN JOSEFormer Executive Gets 26 Years to Life in Murder</a><br /><br /> 
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