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it's about justice.

why in the hell should someone accused of killing 5 PEOPLE get bail period?

take off the lawyer head for a second.

"why in the hell should someone accused of killing 5 PEOPLE get bail period?"

Because she is presumed innocent until convicted. She was convicted, but that conviction was overturned, so it is like it never happened. Her bond now is conditioned on her staying in the mental hospital. If she tries to leave, her bond will be revoked and she'll be put back in jail. She's not going to be out on the streets. People are safe.

I saw a lawyer for this woman speaking at a continuing legal education seminar. This was back before her conviction was overturned. He showed us a lot of video of her from right after the incident with her children and at later dates, and talked with us about the psychiatrist findings and the dirty tricks prosecutors used at her original trial. I've dealt with a lot of crazy people. This lady is obviously crazy. She was picking at her head till it would bleed to try to remove the 666 she imagined was on the top of her head. She was responding to internal stimuli, as if people who weren't there were talking to her. She wasn't making any sense. She was out of her gourd when they first picked her up. I think she's probably crazy enough that she didn't really have control over herself when she did what she did. The prosecutors lied and put on some bogus evidence of a TV show that never even aired about a woman killing her kids and then faking like she was crazy. This was entirely inappropriate conduct on the part of prosecutors. They should be buried under the jail. This lady deserves a fair trial, just like all other Americans accused of crimes do. If we don't protect that right for all then we'll lose it for all, even those who are totally innocent. She's out on bond because she is innocent until proven guilty, but the judge took steps to see that everyone is safe by requiring her to stay in a mental hospital while awaiting her new trial. That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. People are making mountains out of molehills. There is nothing to see here, move along.

"why in the hell should someone accused of killing 5 PEOPLE get bail period?"

Because a jail is not nearly as equipped to handle, long term, seriously mentally ill people like the looney bin she is being moved to.

You're just horrified at her crimes (as you should be) and thinking emotively.