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• Noklito@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There is a tiktok movement that believes that despite all evidence and witness statements, phone logs, and surveillance footage that somehow the husband is responsible.

  This is supported by vibes, astrology and folk magic, it’s very strange. The court case isn’t even about who’s responsible for the murder, it’s about if the Defense has a valid insanity plea to keep her from jail or getting institutionalized.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    valid insanity plea to keep her from jail or getting institutionalized.

    A successful insanity plea keeps you from getting institutionalized?

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    • Noklito@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s a weird situation, most insanity pleas are fought with the defense having to prove they were mentally unwell and incapable of being willingly responsible for their actions but because of the lead up to the crime, it’s being handled in reverse.

      She killed those kids but doesn’t want to go to jail and pleads not guilty by insanity so she wants to be institutionalized. The plaintiff argues she wasn’t insane and was in control of her actions due to how functional she was till the last minute before the crime would have been possible as she orchestrated the conditions to allow her to commit the murders. It’s an interesting case that’s getting muddled by the publics personnel beliefs and is also being co-opted for political purposes by right-wingers as proof the 19th amendment was a mistake.

      It’s insane to see how we even got to this point but it’s being compared to the OJ murders for a reason.

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      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        it’s also a proxy for class/gender war. she’s a rich white woman, do you think if she was any other demographic she’d be able to get away with this, let alone have other white women fan girling super hard for her?

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s not dumb it’s real.

      I dated a lawyer who believed in astrology and folk magic. A lot of people believe in this shit.

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      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Dude, reality is dumb as hell.

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    • Schmuppes@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sure, if you can make the case that you were not in your right mind when you committed a crime and therefore unable to grasp what you were doing (Schuldunfähigkeit in German), you cannot be punished. If the court also finds that you were only temporarily in a condition that made you commit the crime but will most likely not do anything like it again and are not a danger to others? You may neither go to prison nor to a mental institution.

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      • Noklito@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s a very interesting way of handling the situation. Honestly think that a more appropriate way of handling/framing the case.

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