#character-assessment

#character-assessment

Consider a common scenario. Someone's history slowly reveals itself: a past marked by addiction, by deception, by relationships destroyed through the same behaviors now emerging in your direction. You discover that the way they treat you mirrors how they treated others before: the lying, the sneaking, the betrayals they swore were behind them. The addiction they claimed to have conquered resurfaces in different substances, different compulsions, while they remain in denial about what anyone watching from outside could plainly see.

Gurney stated Carruthers had made admissions in his Pre-Sentence Report, wishing to cleanse his conscience for his actions, attributing the tree felling to drunken stupidity.