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1 posted on 04/03/2004 6:00:46 PM PST by zook
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Bought the insanity?
2 posted on 04/03/2004 6:02:04 PM PST by don-o (Stop Freeploading. Do the right thing and sign up for a monthly donation.)
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Bought the insanity?
3 posted on 04/03/2004 6:02:13 PM PST by don-o (Stop Freeploading. Do the right thing and sign up for a monthly donation.)
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Old Testement defense?
5 posted on 04/03/2004 6:02:48 PM PST by OneTimeLurker
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Contact high?
6 posted on 04/03/2004 6:03:13 PM PST by thoughtomator (Voting Bush because there is no reasonable alternative)
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I would not feel so all alone.

Everybody must get stoned.

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7 posted on 04/03/2004 6:03:34 PM PST by martin_fierro (A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
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8 posted on 04/03/2004 6:04:06 PM PST by Support Free Republic (I'd rather be sleeping. Let's get this over with so I can go back to sleep!)
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The plea should be Guilty but Insane.
9 posted on 04/03/2004 6:04:29 PM PST by mlmr (Honest officer, I wasn't speeding. This SUV is a low-flying rocket!)
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Not having followed the case very closely, I think this maybe was a correct verdict. What say y'all?
10 posted on 04/03/2004 6:04:52 PM PST by don-o (Stop Freeploading. Do the right thing and sign up for a monthly donation.)
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NO! The court system is a joke. Poor children, she will be found guilty by a higher court.
11 posted on 04/03/2004 6:05:50 PM PST by ladyinred (Monthly donors don't have to think! Become one now and veg out!)
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A travesty again.

She should have been stoned. Wait a minute ... I think I hear God talking to me ... yes, He's telling me to STONE HER! Gota run and get over there and stone away.
13 posted on 04/03/2004 6:07:18 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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From what I'm hearing, this was pretty much a slam-dunk. The prosecution couldn't find any psychologist or psychiatrist to state she was sane, and ended up arguing with their own witnesses. Many years ago, a friend of mine made a call on a guy who had beaten an eighteen month old child to death by grabbing him by his feet and swinging him into walls and coffee tables like a bat. He was a long time drug user and thought the child was a robot that was trying to take over his mind. The man was found not guilty by reason of insanity, but later gouged his own eyes out in the facility where he was being kept.

Some people really are insane.

15 posted on 04/03/2004 6:07:46 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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Mother acquitted in sons' stoning deaths

07:57 PM CST on Saturday, April 3, 2004

By LEE HANCOCK / The Dallas Morning News

TYLER - Deanna Laney was found not guilty by reason of insanity after a jury deliberated for almost six hours in her capital murder case.

Mrs. Laney admitted killing two of her sons by bashing their heads with rocks. She struck and maimed a third son. She said God told her to kill the boys as a test of faith.

Neither she nor her husband Keith Laney showed visible emotion as judge Cynthia Kent read the verdict. One juror wiped away tears and another looked stricken.

She now faces civil commitment proceedings within the next 30 days. She was returned the Smith County jail and the next hearing will be on Tuesday before Judge Kent to determine how the commitment hearing will proceed.

Mrs. Laney's parents hugged the family's pastor and her sister wiped away tears, but they and other family members were silent as they left the courtroom.

Jurors began deliberating Mrs. Laney's fate about noon Saturday after lawyers for both sides said her capital murder case turned on two terrible things: the horror of three bloody battered boys and the haunting question of why

AP
Deanna Laney hangs her head during closing arguments in her capital murder trial.

16 posted on 04/03/2004 6:07:56 PM PST by deport (("These guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group I have ever seen. It's scary," Kerry said.)
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If she's not guilty, then she is certainly criminally insane.

She needs to be confined for life.

21 posted on 04/03/2004 6:12:32 PM PST by Ken H
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This b*tch should die. I wish to God I could help her die, it would be a pleasure. But ya know what? She gets away with murder, but if they wanted to they could put me away for threatening her.

These stupid people on the jury let her get away with killing her own flesh and blood, and they let her maim and blind the littlest one. The blood of those two little boys is on THEIR hands as well.

There is NO justice in America any more. How the hell can they say she is NOT GUILTY when she herself told them she did the deed, and she described it with all relish - how she beat them to death with stones. She's not insane - she's evil.

Even that crazy Andrea Yates got prison for killing her children. This woman gets not guilty - NOT GUILTY. But this is a death sentence for someone - some other child, whose parent just figured out they can get away with murder, has just received their death sentence.
22 posted on 04/03/2004 6:12:52 PM PST by dandelion
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So how is this different from Abraham and Isaac? Except that in that case, God said "Hold it! Just funnin'."
39 posted on 04/03/2004 6:28:29 PM PST by Grut
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Sounds like the O.J. Simpson jury struck again.
43 posted on 04/03/2004 6:37:15 PM PST by Smartass
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When you get down to it, this has/had nothing to do with the insanity defense. This has to do with a prevaling attitude in this country that a mother won't kill their child unless they are crazy.

Susan Smith, Andrea Yates both got off light. If a man had done the same, it would have been death.

Facts are, women do and can kill children in vicious ways. She deserved the chair, or at least the same type of death she gave to her children.

47 posted on 04/03/2004 6:54:01 PM PST by Brytani (Politics: n. from Greek; "poli"-many; "tics"-ugly, bloodsucking parasites.)
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So much for Texas justice... a father would never get away with this lame defense.
51 posted on 04/03/2004 6:59:22 PM PST by Lunatic Fringe (John F-ing Kerry??? NO... F-ING... WAY!!!)
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Now I know what defense to use if I ever get in big trouble... God made me do it!
52 posted on 04/03/2004 7:03:30 PM PST by Kirkwood
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Nope. Sorry. Wrong answer.

As a mother of two who dealt with severe post-partum after the birth of my second child (it lasted over a year), I entertained many despairing thoughts - but never about harming a hair on my babies' heads.

Despite this experience, I think she and Yates deserve the chair.

56 posted on 04/03/2004 7:27:03 PM PST by TheWriterInTexas (With God's Grace, All Things Are Possible)
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