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Killer mom Susan Smith will argue she should be paroled because she’s been (mostly) well behaved: ‘Just let me live my life’
NY Post ^ | Sep. 24, 2024, | Steve Helling

Posted on 09/24/2024 9:35:48 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul

Secondly, Smith wants to argue that she was not in her right mind as a young mom — and that she may have suffered from undiagnosed mental illness.

She was a 22-year-old mom when she let her car roll into John D. Long Lake in Union County, South Carolina, with her boys — 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander — still strapped into their car seats.

It’s an argument Smith has used before. “I am not the monster society thinks I am,” she wrote in a letter from jail to reporters at The State in 2015.

“Something went very wrong that night. I was not myself. There was no motive as it was not even a planned event. I was not in my right mind.”

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The other famous crime in South Carolina. The fact that Smith blamed the crime on a black man will go heavy on her in today's culture. I think her chances for parole are zero to none.
1 posted on 09/24/2024 9:35:48 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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She claims she was not in her right mind and that she is now so she should be let free. But she has a history of drug and sex infractions behind bars. Not a model prisoner.


2 posted on 09/24/2024 9:39:03 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Tex Watson gets paroled before this chick.


3 posted on 09/24/2024 9:41:00 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: DeplorablePaul

How about No.


4 posted on 09/24/2024 9:41:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Your kids back from the dead?

No?

Die in prison you nasty piece of filth.

Should have been hanged.

5 posted on 09/24/2024 9:42:42 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: DeplorablePaul

Let me live my life… exactly why she killed her kids.


6 posted on 09/24/2024 9:42:54 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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Killer mom Susan Smith will argue she should be paroled because she’s been (mostly) well behaved:

Hmmmmm...

...NO.

7 posted on 09/24/2024 9:44:26 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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[[‘Just let me live my life’ ]]

Sure, IN PRISON!

Your kids didn’t get to live their lives! Actions have consequences-


8 posted on 09/24/2024 9:46:49 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: DeplorablePaul

She is living her life, just keep going, honey.


9 posted on 09/24/2024 9:47:33 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (.You will suffer from one: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. )
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

I watched the Sex Behind Bars documentary. Clearly she had too much time on her hands and was lonely. Both guards were easily seduced. I don’t really blame her for those infractions.


10 posted on 09/24/2024 9:47:45 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Sounds like a low grade psychopath. I’m sure the democrat party would welcome her home.


11 posted on 09/24/2024 9:49:26 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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Even if she were paroled, how would she live? Would anyone hire her? Would anyone really want to be her friend or involved with her?

I don’t see how one ever lives down what she did.


12 posted on 09/24/2024 9:52:05 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

I’d be fine if her life consisted of strapping her into a minivan and rolling it in to the lake.


13 posted on 09/24/2024 9:54:09 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: dfwgator
No "do-overs" for murderers.

She is hardly different from abortion fiends, just that her timing was a little off.

14 posted on 09/24/2024 9:55:39 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: DeplorablePaul

As I remember she tried to blame it on the local black community. They should have turned her over to a group of 100 really angry black women. A reverse color lynching.


15 posted on 09/24/2024 9:56:06 AM PDT by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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"I am not the monster society thinks I am." - Susan Smith

The issue is not whether or not Susan Smith is a monster; the issue is that Susan Smith did a monstrous thing and must atone for it.

16 posted on 09/24/2024 10:00:57 AM PDT by Always A Marine ("When you strike at a king, you must kill him" - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Jamestown1630

Maybe she could get a job providing home care for an old man.


17 posted on 09/24/2024 10:01:39 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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She just wants to grow old in a middle class neighborhood


18 posted on 09/24/2024 10:01:53 AM PDT by llevrok (Say NO to a fourth Obama term!)
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I am not the monster society thinks I am,” she wrote in a letter from jail to reporters at The State in 2015.

Right. You were probably the person your kids looked up to and trusted the most. You were likely the one your kids had the most emotional connection to. In the ultimate betrayal, as the one most charged with protecting them and loving them - you violated that trust and stood there and watched as they drowned. Their last moments were likely filled in pure terror as they were trapped in their carseats and left to die.

Rather than turning yourself in and stating you had a problem, you needed help - you trotted out a racist trope that a black man stole your kids. All these years later you still haven’t accepted responsibility.

You are worse than the monster you perceive society believes you to be. Be grateful for prison and not mob justice.

19 posted on 09/24/2024 10:01:55 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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Of course she’s been well-behaved. There aren’t any kids behind bars for her to kill.


20 posted on 09/24/2024 10:02:23 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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