We just cut up our grandma with a chainsaw. Does that sound "fine"????
Posted on 12/05/2024 2:07:24 PM PST by Libloather
A Maryland woman is set to be released from jail despite helping her mother dismember her grandmother's body with a chainsaw and grill the remains, after attorneys argued she was simply following her mother's orders.
Salia Margaret Hardy, 21, has learning disabilities that made her more susceptible to coercion, her attorneys had argued in Prince George's County Circuit Court, to which Judge Karen Mason ultimately agreed, according to the Washington Post.
She decided on Wednesday to let Hardy go free after she pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact and provided damning testimony against her own mother, Candace Craig, 46.
The judge declared that the 550 days Hardy already spent behind bars for the death of her grandmother, 71-year-old Margaret Craig, was enough time served for her role in her grandmother's murder and issued probation requirements aimed at helping the young woman put her life back together.
These include psychiatric and psychological evaluations, as well as drug and alcohol tests.
Hardy must also have employment and vocational training alongside the services of a mentor or life coach, and will be under supervision for five years.
Prosecutors did not seem to have any issues with letting Hardy go free either, with Assistant State's Attorney Shauna Coleman pointing to her testimony at her mother's trial in October.
'I have never seen such bravery on the part of a cooperator,' Coleman said, noting Hardy 'really secured justice for her grandmother.'
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Well, it would be cruel for her to miss Christmas.
She seems nice.
Don’t be cruel. The poor thing lost her grandmother in a gruesome murder.
What’s she going to name her new restaurant chain?
We just cut up our grandma with a chainsaw. Does that sound "fine"????
Why not? I’ll wager that there are thousands like her running around in Maryland.
[She seems nice.]
And she can cook!
Yes, Yogi … its them again…
the comma defense?
Somehow I knew it would be.
grandma got dismembered by a chainsaw...
I guess she got her wish-tershire.
Great...I’ve got a new song to sing at the grocery store!
Let’s eat grandma!
Let’s eat, grandma!
Commas save lives!
I looked
Tragic miscarriage of justice on the public to release her...
Uh huh.
You get the main actor, and the accomplice gets a break.
It's not good, obviously, but the alternative is to risk convicting nobody.
She was released once the judge learned that she was a good kook,... I mean cook.
Nothing says you care more than using Kingsford.
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