The problem is I don't think she is miserable. jmo
I was just thinking about this last night (yes, I have no life..) - I think one of the reasons ICA would never have accepted a plea deal is that she values all of this attention (short term gain) more than she values extending her life (long term planning). She has demonstrated ZERO ability to long term plan. She thrives on instant gratification, and just comes up with something to fake her way out of the consequences ten minutes later.
So I think her sick mind is thriving during the trial. The cameras, the friends getting pulled from around the world to come to her trial, the MEDIA!, the attorneys "working for her", dedicated to her life and her story and her clothes, expressions, actions, etc., telling her they're on her side, touching her and cosseting her and listening to her.
No, she doesn't particularly like all the negative footage she has to watch, but by and large she's very happy and starts and ends each day of the trial with a smile and a chat and giggles and some flirtation - it's like a field trip where she goes to become the center of world wide attention! Awesome! Shakes off the stuff about babies and death and decomposition within seconds. All the news footage says she's unique and special and they've never seen anything like this. I think this is close to her narcissistic dream. Were she NOT at trial, she would just be sitting in a cell.
However when the trial ends, she won't have the spotlight anymore. Her attorneys will work on appeals, which they won't need much help for. Her parents and brother won't be vying to get in for a visit as often now that she's accused all of them of death cover up, molestation and deadly negligence. Like Scott Peterson and Diane Downs, eventually she'll be gone from the news so long that people rarely talk about her unless they're comparing some new famous case to her.
I don't care if she gets the DP or LWOP. What should be important is the healing of her family - so if they'd prefer she live in a cage forever, that's fine with me. If she loses her attention fix I'd be happy. If she got put in the general population without special treatment that would be great. If she complained and blamed and lied without the enormous media megaphone I'd be happy (because no one would notice, or know, or care...)
I'd like to see GA and CA with their cool 2 million move out of the little house and into someplace nicer and send ICA pictures. I'd like to see Lee and Mallory have a baby and GA and CA spoil the baby rotten and pour attention on L and M and baby and send ICA pictures. I'd like them all to heal and repair their lives and live really good ones, happier ones without KC. And for her to know about it and be enraged in a cell, forever.
That had no effect in Scott Peterson's case- his parents Lee and Jackie also lost a grandson, he still got the Death Penalty.
Yeah, but man it was hard to have sympathy for them, they were pretty unlikeable. I know that's not a real reason for DP or no DP, but seriously I think Sharon's raw pain was felt so acutely that Lee and Jackie just slipped under the emotional radar.