The media circus that will accompany this new trial will be appalling. I also don't see how she could possibly ever get a new trial with an impartial jury, is there anyone who hasn't read about this case?
She wasn't given the death penalty, and probably should have been, insane or not, it's hard to be non-emotional about this, but this woman coldly murdered her 5 children, one by one, and if I remember correctly, she chased the oldest boy around the house because he tried to escape. I don't get what giving her a new trial is going to prove.
I have always been of the opinion, that Rusty, her husband, is not without blame in this case. This woman had more than one suicide attempt, and left his children alone with her.
Dietz seems to get around:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlates...715595,00.html
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Dietz is a nationally known expert who also took part in such high profile cases as those of Susan Smith, convicted of killing her two children in a South Carolina lake; serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer; and ``Unabomber'' Ted Kaczynski.
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