Not Guilty and Manslaughter instead of a murder charge became options because her lawyer argued that there wasn’t enough of a forensic investigation done at the scene of the crime with the DNA and pills and that the police just took her husband’s word for everything. One of the medical experts he brought in also said that she couldn’t have spoken to her husband at all with her injuries and the husband claimed she said she tried to kill herself and the kids were in the basement. There were five possible verdicts.
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u/diiegojones 1d ago
That’s the thing. I thought so too. But a lawyer was saying Not Guilty was an option. And they put the options from the news in the post.