Really good point,
@MsMarple. Someone should have seen the more normal (non-Evil) personality at some point in the last three years. We can compare to that woman who just seems to have admitted killing her only son, at age 11, then driving her car into the Atlantic. "I know what I did," is what she told police (that's from memory - it was posted last night on that thread).
Yes, IMO she looks void inside as if she completely destroyed her reason for living. My theory is that it was not premeditated at all, it was simply a crime of passion brought on by whatever in which she strangled Matthew with her husband's belt; was heartbroken and drove down to Cape May where...
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I totally agree. It mystifies me that Colorado has its law set up this way. OTOH, legislators don't always think backwards from the point of view of trial judges or attorneys (or the general public). Some people definitely believe that if it's in DSM (which is designed for completely other purposes), then the person is "mentally ill." Some people think mentally ill = insane. I am sure we will hear completely opposite viewpoints from the experts, although I do think the State has to face the issue that she was held for psychiatric observation in CO for quite a while, until they stabilized her enough to meet the bar of "competent to stand trial."
It makes no sense to me. How can a person be "competent to stand trial" and "legally insane" at the same time? I suppose the bar in CO is something like "able to comprehend the charges and aid in their own defense." And I suppose the jury is only to decide whether she was insane at the time she killed Gannon. Whatever is wrong with this defendant, it's longterm, permanent and profound. It didn't just pop up that day and last a few days, then go away. It's her own normal, her own baseline (IMO).
Every person I know who has only glanced casually at this trial seems to utter the same words as your husband (or use the word "crazy"). I am hopeful, though, that the prosecution's explanation of the legal criteria in CO is going to do the trick at closing. I think the jury wants badly to find her guilty (how could they not?)
All IMO.
