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Noklito@lemmy.zip 4 days agoThere 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.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 days ago
A successful insanity plea keeps you from getting institutionalized?
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.
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?
Noklito@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Unrelated, your name made me chuckle, thanks for the smile.
To the point, I’ve noticed that too, it’s so overwhelmingly obvious that none of the support she’s getting is authentic, it’s clear people are using this for their or culture war nonsense and it’s concerning as the precedent this case could set can have some serious consequences.
It feels like a lot of people aren’t taking this seriously, the arguments/discussions people are trying to make around this can snowball into something disastrous.
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.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 days ago
Dude, reality is dumb as hell.
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.
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.