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Multiple personality raised at LI woman's fraud trial

Defense attorney David Bythewood insisted Monday that his client doesn't know who she really is, arguing that his client ought not to be prosecuted on fraud charges. Bythewood knows his client as Elene Michel, but also as Valerie Brown or Yael Norman, and he said other distinct personalities could emerge and act at cross-purposes to each other, as he asked that she not be tried on grounds of mental...

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