Found Deceased CO - Gannon Stauch, 11, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, 27 Jan 2020 *Arrest* #52

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Attorneys change Letecia Stauch's plea to 'not guilty by reason of insanity' - KRDO

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Stauch will be given an evaluation at the Colorado Mental Health Institute by a state doctor to determine if she was sane at the time of the alleged killing. If the state doctor finds her insane, prosecutors can decide to have her committed rather than stand trial, or she will stand trial and use insanity as a defense. If she's found sane, Stauch's defense attorneys will use their out-of-state expert to determine sanity; if that's the case, prosecutors will again decide to go to trial with the insanity defense or have her committed.

If both doctors find Stauch sane at the time of Gannon's death, the trial will move forward with her original "not guilty" plea restored.

The new development will delay Stauch's trial by several months.

Stauch has been held in custody without bond since her arrest in early 2020.
 
Ughh gave myself a 2 hr time out so I wouldn’t get a time out. I am sooo beyond disgusted in that piece of work. I feel for Landon and Al it’s heartbreaking to keep dragging this out . There’s no way she can get away with this . The way she killed Gannon and hid it and him the way she covered her tracks and then disposed of him that’s a evil heartless person not insane. But that’s jmoo she can’t hide from karma
 
cujenn81 said:
If the people of Colorado couldn’t find James Holmes NGRI, I don’t see it happening for Letecia Stauch either.

She’s a real piece of work.
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I'm not worried. She knew what she was doing, and she knew what she was doing was wrong.

That's why she hid his body in a suitcase, and took elaborate measures to conceal its discovery. She told lie after lie, in an effort to explain away evidence.

She even attempted to fake a polygraph test to convince people of her innocence.

She's a sick person, don't get me wrong. But that's not the standard.

She will never taste freedom again, no matter how this plays out.
 
Cindizzi said:
https://twitter.com/nataliechuck/status/1492258469549858820?s=21
Prosecution is not consenting to wave a jury trial. @KOAA

https://twitter.com/nataliechuck/status/1492259075224186884?s=21
Judge says Defense has to show "good cause" for entering a delayed plea. @KOAA

https://twitter.com/nataliechuck/status/1492259075224186884?s=21
Judge is running through previous cases where pleas of NGRI (Not guilty by reason of insanity) were admitted late... @KOAA

https://twitter.com/nataliechuck/status/1492260362405789699?s=21
The court WILL ALLOW an NGRI to be admitted, according to Judge. @KOAA
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BBM
Just O. M. G. !!!!!!!!!
 
She’s finally accepted that she’s cooked.

Tee’s working on a scheme.

They’ve locked down hard on her I think. She’s got no play in jail. She’s not getting her way. She has to play by their rules. Tee doesn’t like that.

Gonna be a better “existence” in a mental hospital. Maybe a little more lax? Maybe she can win over her keepers?

Maybe a better opportunity to escape? Aha! This is the only way she can possibly escape or find some form of freedom. I believe this is a ploy to escape plain and simple.

NGRI is the last gamble for her. There is no other route.

Tee is a sick piece of work and a Wiley Coyote to boot.

We can NEVER take our eyes off of her. She is more than dangerous to all around her.

I really feel for her keepers.

MOO
 
BeckyF said:
Isn’t this the 3rd mental health evaluation she has had? How many tries does she get?
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The third one is a totally different kind of evaluation with a totally different purpose. The first two evals were for competency. This one is for sanity. Competency to stand trial isn't the same thing as insanity at the time of the crime.

Every defendant in the US who has ever been found NGRI was found to be competent first. It is impossible to be found incompetent for trial and without ever being found competent, be found NGRI in court. Can't happen. So the fact she was found competent really says nothing about her sanity at the time of the crime nor do the findings of the first two evals render this one unnecessary for her plea. The purposes are different. Saying she's already had 2 evals so she doesn't need this one is sort of like deciding someone who has had two negative tests for strep throat doesn't need to be tested for COVID.
JMO
 
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MassGuy said:
I'm not worried. She knew what she was doing, and she knew what she was doing was wrong.

That's why she hid his body in a suitcase, and took elaborate measures to conceal its discovery. She told lie after lie, in an effort to explain away evidence.

She even attempted to fake a polygraph test to convince people of her innocence.

She's a sick person, don't get me wrong. But that's not the standard.

She will never taste freedom again, no matter how this plays out.
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She obviously understood the consequences of her murderous actions and went to great measure to try to cover it up. Under the law, that is not insanity. Imo this will never fly. She's going to down for murder 1!
 
NCWatcher said:
The third one is a totally different kind of evaluation with a totally different purpose. The first two evals were for competency. This one is for sanity. Competency to stand trial isn't the same thing as insanity at the time of the crime.

Every defendant in the US who has ever been found NGRI was found to be competent first. It is impossible to be found incompetent for trial and without ever being found competent, be found NGRI in court. Can't happen. So the fact she was found competent really says nothing about her sanity at the time of the crime nor do the findings of the first two evals render this one unnecessary for her plea. The purposes are different. Saying she's already had 2 evals so she doesn't need this one is sort of like deciding someone who has had two negative tests for strep throat doesn't need to be tested for COVID.
JMO
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Thank You. I started thinking about this after I posted. Now I realize now these are 2 different things regarding sanity. :)
 
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