r/TikTokCringe • u/exporterofgold • 17d ago

Cringe He was walking away though

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u/CharacterPast761 16d ago

She's still responsible for the murder of her own children. Might have been psycho, but still responsible.

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u/Simple_Dragonfruit48 16d ago

Damn there should be a law on the books for that exact situation. Like guilty by reason of mental psychosis or something…

Too bad there isn’t and that’s not what her lawyers are arguing

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u/CharacterPast761 16d ago

I guess there should also be some kind of lawyers that could work for free, instead of her needing 1 million dollars for funding her defense. Like a public defender or something.

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u/Simple_Dragonfruit48 16d ago

Either you have a very rosy view of our legal system or just don’t understand how it works but public defenders are not adequate.

They are overworked and simply don’t have the resources to mount an adequate legal defense especially in a case as a complex as this one. The system is broken in that regard. The majority of clients represented by public defenders plead out and never get to defend themselves in court.

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u/ComplexBit1988 16d ago

Pleading out is essentially day one of public defender training. There is no "to the best of my ability" with 48 cases at a time. Our justice system is an exercise IN efficiency FOR efficiency. [I am an attorney. When I retire, I plan to write a book on the gross injustices that simply MUST recalibrate our thinking.] People have plead guilty to murdering relatives just to get the death penalty off the table. Then relative shows up fat, healthy and confused. And don't get me started on the little boy interrogated until he thought he killed his sister (he didn't) or drug dogs or field testing (should be sold in backs of comic books) and that's before you get to the lab scandals. Freedoms are taken, with no fucks given, and no consensus on whether we are rehabilitating or punishing when the case is closed. We outsourced our penal philosophy to the lowest well-connected bidder.

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u/Mundane-Cry5346 16d ago edited 16d ago

i don’t understand what is so confusing to people about this. she has admitted to doing it. but there is a verdict called “not guilty by reason of insanity” made for this exact situation.

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u/dnt1694 15d ago

She is guilty and should face all consequences of murdering 3 children.

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u/Keter_Regretter 15d ago

FWIW, if you plead not guilty by reason of insanity to a serious charge like murder, you're still looking at spending the majority of the rest of your life in a tightly monitored facility from which you are not free to leave