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   Lawyers for the Texas traveling nurse held behind bars on six   
   counts of murder for a fiery Los Angeles wreck earlier this   
   month appealed for her to be released for psychiatric testing,   
   alleging in a new motion that the woman suffered a mental   
   collapse and may have blacked out before the deadly wreck.   
      
   Nicole Linton, a traveling nurse from Texas, is facing murder   
   charges after allegedly barreling a Mercedes-Benz at 90 mph   
   through an intersection in Los Angeles’ Windsor Hills section on   
   Aug. 4, sparking a fiery crash that killed six, including a   
   pregnant woman, her unborn child, her boyfriend, and the woman’s   
   11-month-old infant son.   
      
   In a new motion filed Tuesday, Linton’s defense attorneys   
   describe how she suffered a mental collapse before the crash.   
   The filing also describes Linton’s deteriorating mental state   
   after a bipolar disorder diagnosis four years ago.   
      
   In the aftermath of the crash, Linton was treated at the Ronald   
   Reagan UCLA Medical Center by Dr. William Winter, who wrote in   
   an Aug. 6 evaluation that she experienced an "apparent lapse of   
   consciousness" leading up to the wreck captured on disturbing   
   surveillance video.   
      
   "She has no recollection of the events that led to her   
   collision," Winter wrote in the evaluation including among other   
   heavily redacted medical records attached to the motion. "The   
   next thing she recalled was lying on the pavement and seeing   
   that her car was on fire."   
      
   The motion says Linton’s family first became aware of her mental   
   health issues in May 2018. A letter from Linton’s sister,   
   Camille Linton, said that Nicole experienced her first mental   
   breakdown while studying to become a nursing anesthetist at the   
   University of Texas in Houston.   
      
   "The stress was too much for her and it ‘broke’ her," Camille   
   Linton wrote. "Thus beginning the journey of Nicole’s 4-year   
   struggle with mental illness."   
      
   At the time of the crash, Nicole Linton had been working for   
   West Los Angeles Medical Center. She had expressed to her sister   
   that her co-workers were "acting weird" toward her.   
      
   "In the days and hours leading up to the events of August 4,   
   Nicole’s behavior became increasingly frightening," the motion   
   says.   
      
   The day of the crash, Linton came home from the hospital for   
   lunch and FaceTimed her sister "completely naked," according to   
   court documents.   
      
   She went back to work before leaving again and called her sister   
   just minutes before the crash to say she was coming back to   
   Houston to visit her niece and that she would be getting married   
   soon.   
      
   While experiencing a panic attack in May 2018, Nicole Linton ran   
   out of her apartment, and when police approached, she jumped on   
   the hood of the cop car and was arrested for disorderly conduct,   
   the motion says. She called her family from the police station   
   stating concern for her pet turtle at home.   
      
   Days after that arrest, she confessed to her family that she   
   believed she was possessed by her dead grandmother. The motion   
   says that she visited Ben Taub psychiatric hospital the next day   
   and required stitches after banging her head into a glass   
   partition and complaining about police and the Supreme Court.   
   Records note she sang Bob Marley as the medical staff tended to   
   the bloody wound.   
      
   The motions say Linton was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at   
   Ben Taub and prescribed psychiatric medication. More than a year   
   later, a neighbor spotted Linton running around her apartment   
   complex naked and called the woman’s family. She at that point   
   was involuntarily committed.   
      
   She stopped taking her medication during the pandemic, and an   
   online therapist told her that she merely suffered from anxiety.   
   She also began not sleeping and accused her family of stealing   
   from her.   
      
   The motion says Linton – charged with six counts of murder and   
   five counts of manslaughter – should be released on no more than   
   $300,000 bail with ankle monitoring to undergo testing at UCLA   
   Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital.   
      
      
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