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Originally Posted by jumpy
Yes, but what part of what was reported in the article appeared to be the actions of a sane individual?
Infanticide is a strange and terrible crime... the workings of which I would not call 'sane' under all but the most obvious circumstances.
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While August's comments are quite correct, the point I was making is that attempting to kill someone with one method, and when that method does not work, switching to another method makes it hard to use the insanity (I did not know that what I was doing was wrong) defense. That and her voluntary statement (no Miranda concerns here) that she killed them because she did not want autistic children, will seal her fate.
I don't think a Texas jury will buy an insanity defense on this one.
