A high-priced shrink will try to convince a Queens jury this week that a lawyer strangled his girlfriend because he was traumatized as a child by his mom — who’s now paying all his legal bills.
Jason Bohn, a civil lawyer who admits he killed Danielle Thomas in the Astoria apartment they shared in 2012, is counting on the testimony of Hollywood-based forensic psychiatrist Alexander Sasha Bardey, who also consults for the TV show, “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.’’
Experts with his credentials usually collect between $4,000 and $7,000 a day on the stand. He will focus on “Intermittent Explosive Disorder,’’ claiming that Bohn “blew up’’ and had no idea what he was doing when he killed Thomas, a finance executive for Weight Watchers.
And he’ll blame Bohn’s mother, Maureen O’Connell, saying she abandoned him when he was 10 because her career was more important to her.
It’s not clear if O’Connell, a publishing executive, will testify.
Prosecutors say Bohn, 35, killed his 27-year-old gal pal because she told his friends and co-workers that he’d abused her.
Bardey, who’s on staff at NYU Langone Medical Center, also produced the movie “Side Effects,’’ about a woman who kills her husband.