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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those arguing that she was not mentally ill but instead is a stone cold Casey Anthony type have a huge mountain of circumstantial evidence to get over to get a jury there.

Can we recall a stone cold Casey Anthony type who—totally coincidentally and in no way related to her actions in the subsequent crimes—had also been in a 5-day IOP and on 15 different psychiatric meds since September but been entirely healed, cured, with no remaining trace of the level of thought derangement that leads to that level of those medications and somewhat frantic toggling among options to identify what worked, only 4 months before?

No, we cannot.[/quote]

I can't even follow your run-on-sentence. [/quote]

It’s long, but not a run-on. No one is as crazy she was in month 1 and fully sane, but with a new bent for extreme evildoing, in Month 4. That dog just don’t hunt.[/quote]

She can have mental illness and still be capable of committing murder. Not guilty by reason of insanity is a very specific and high bar and it does not apply to anyone with a mental illness. When she came to in the hospital, she didn't ask what happened. She knew - and all she wanted to know was if she needed a lawyer. Doesn't sound like a mother who is shocked that her kids are dead and she is the one who did it. [/quote]

We don’t actually know this. If you watch the actual arraignment they say it was ONE of the first things she asked, and specifically says at this point she already knew her children had been murdered it does not say whether they told her that. Easily could have been they told her that and then she asked. Not that she woke up already knowing and immediately asked. People are really construing what was said.

It is really bizarre to me that people are trying to argue this woman wasn’t ill and was plotting this evil murder of her children when we have evidence of an in-patient hospitalization (the bar is high for that, more women than you might think have suicidal ideation and some intrusive thoughts about harming their child, it is actually not immediate grounds for hospitalization). If you’re going to make arguments based on things like I’m assuming she google mapped because she was plotting this, you could also argue why was she going to such lengths to get pediatric miralax? That doesn’t match up. Her mother said it was good to see her looking good a few days before, which means she was NOT GOOD very recently.

The prosecution was making a needed case to keep her in custody, as I think everyone agrees is appropriate. Everyone is taking small amounts of information and somehow jumping to its more likely this woman who was being treated for postpartum depression with a recent hospitalization and per friends and family a loving mom was actually secretly purely evil, plotting to murder her children.

It is so so much more likely that she was having postpartum mental illness, was doing better, and something happened while he was gone that made her have a “break” if you will and she was flooded. [/quote]

She choked her kids with exercise bands, one at a time, for several minutes each. [/quote]

I mean, exactly. No sane mother of three who is a midwife and labor and delivery nurse with NO history of domestic violence, prior abuse or neglect to children etc, but was a loving mom based on truly everyone’s reports even her grieving husband does something like that in her right mind. I’m sorry the likelihood of that is so low especially considering SHE HAD CONFIRMED PPD AND THOUGHTS OF SUICIDE AND HARMING OTHERS A MONTH BEFORE. [/quote]

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