I don’t think ‘acquittal’ as people seem to mean it was in the cards. Even not guilty by reason of her state of mind would probably keep her locked up for a long time.
Our family had an ex-husband who scrawled “You are a whore,” on the wall of her place of employment. He also shot out the window in her living room. Finally, he caught his ex-wife’s lawyer on the sidewalk and almost cut off his head with a boning knife. The murder made big headlines on TV and newspapers. He got off from a Capital murder conviction with a mental illness defense. Letters to the editor of my newspaper were filled with outrage at the acquittal. It seems that if your crazy enough, you get three meals and a room at a mental hospital.
Bull. Not guilty by reason of insanity does not mean she gets sent to the looney bin. It means she’s “Not Guilty” which means that if she is no longer suffering from the condition that led to the crime, she walks free. The prosecution put on a dozen witnesses that says she wasn’t and isn’t legally insane. So there would be no current legal basis to send her to a psyche ward.
Do you think she should be released? If so, then maybe you are insane.
not guilty and she’d be walking in 15 years or less