I hate to tell you this living in reality, but the mistrial would have been 11-1 for guilty and not NGBI if that was the case. To get on an actual jury, you have to have very low knowledge of the case and you get unfiltered evidence without 5000 people’s opinions on it. This case was high profile from go, so it had to be extremely difficult to find the first jury unless everyone lied on the questionnaire and during the screening.
"If that was the case"? It is the case. She sent her husband away in order to kill their children. That's what happened. You can argue that she did it in a psychotic state, but it is still premeditation by any definition that makes sense. So I don't agree with you that the cases aren't comparable.
That’s YOUR opinion, which you are entitled to have. There is no argument that she killed her kids, even by the defense but if it was that cut and dry that she premeditated it, she would have been found guilty or those votes would have swung to the guilty side during the mistrial. NGBI also doesn’t mean the person walks free, like many people think. They go to a locked facility for the criminally insane for an indefinite amount of time and usually never get out.
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u/JohnnyGoldberg 15h ago
I hate to tell you this living in reality, but the mistrial would have been 11-1 for guilty and not NGBI if that was the case. To get on an actual jury, you have to have very low knowledge of the case and you get unfiltered evidence without 5000 people’s opinions on it. This case was high profile from go, so it had to be extremely difficult to find the first jury unless everyone lied on the questionnaire and during the screening.