Perhaps the DA should have cast a wider net and tried on a less rigorous standard, by charging second degree murder instead of first degree murder
I’m not blaming the DA
It was clearly first degree murder
But perhaps the DA (and most right-thinking Americans) didn’t recognize the potential uber-stupidity of “a jury of her peers,” as well as the general emotional/anxious train-wreck and lunacy that is the state of woke urban females in 2026
Massachusetts is just whack! If the defense is going to claim insanity, then the burden should be on them. The burdern to prove otherwise should not be on the Commonwealth.
The jury DID have the option to drop to the lesser charge of 2nd degree murder. They were going either for acquittal or one of the mental incapacity options.
I’d be that holdout too. The reverse of 12 Angry Men, going for conviction.
Seems about 1/4 of freepers think she is either innocent or shouldn’t be convicted. God help us!
Change of venue. Move the trial to Oklahoma and deliberations will last 15 minutes. GUILTY.