Just what IS her defense?
She's nutty as a fruitcake.
She was on all sorts of depression, hallucination, and other drugs. Indeed, she had been involuntarily committed several times before as a danger to herself in others. (Kept hearing God, demons, etc.)
The family was mixed up with this goofy preacher who exacerbated things. ("Depressed? Crazy? Just pray more! It's a punishment from God! You deserve it!" etc.)
She got a new doctor (via the HMO, I believe) who didn't like all those drugs (in part because she kept getting pregnant). When she went off, she went bat-s crazy.
IMHO, the husband is at least partially culpable for leaving the kids with a woman who so clearly had a more than a few screws loose.
Her defense is insanity. I think she was/is insane and deserves a fair trail, which she didn't get the first time.
And even IF she is found to be not guilty due to insanity, I hope she is locked up her entire life because society cannot afford to pay the price just in case she goes off of her meds again and kills/harms someone else.
Someone HAS to protect society from these "loonies". Once again, it is up to our justice system to do the right thing.
Will the system prevail?