Arkansas: Anne Pressly

David Koon reports that forensic psychologist Shawn Agharkar, a professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta, told a jury this morning trying to decide whether Curtis Vance should die for the murder of KATV anchor Anne Pressly that Vance was brain damaged and paranoid.

Agharkar, the third witness to testify for the defense in the penalty phase of the trial that started yesterday afternoon, said Vance's impairment might not always be noticeable, comparing him to a "vehicle that looks good but has a wiring problem" and may have trouble starting or running.

Agharkar said his review of the battery of tests given Vance earlier in the year indicated he had frontal lobe damage and was incapable of considering options.

Still no decision on whether Curtis Lavelle Vance will spend the rest of his life in prison or die for the beating death of KATV anchor Anne Pressly. Vance was found guilty earlier today of capital murder, rape and residential burglary.

After a short break following the verdict, jurors came back to begin hearing the prosecution's case for why Vance should die for the crime -- called aggravating circumstances -- and the defense's argument of why his life should be spared -- called mitigating circumstances. Now that he has been convicted of capital murder, life in prison without parole or death are the only two punishments the jury is allowed to consider.

That's accused killer Curtis Vance, commenting to Fox 16's David Goins, as he entered the courtroom for today's closing arguments on the charge that he fatally beat KATV anchor Anne Pressly in her home last year.

More from David Koon when we have it.

The capital murder trail of Curtis Vance in the slaying of KATV anchor Anne Pressly ran past 7 p.m. tonight as jurors were shown a sometimes rambling 4-hours-plus videotaped statement Vance provided police on February 24 of this year.

As seen on the tape: After asking to talk to detectives yet again, Vance initially told them that he'd been in MacArthur Park the night of the Pressly murder, and saw a white person -- he couldn't tell whether the person was male or female, he said -- get out of a blue or black car and dump Pressly's purse and laptop in a trash can.