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281. Forensic Psychiatrist Investigates The Daybell Case

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The Mormons and the Psychiatric Defence

There is no guilty by reason insanity in Idaho as a defence. If they had, I am 100% convinced that she wouldn't have got that psychiatric defence. And the very fact that she tried to escape suggests that even if she was delusional, she still knew what she was doing was wrong. They all seem to just buy into these ideas, the apocalypse from zombies and did what they did. Like, at what point do we go, this, well, what's meant to illness and what is, you know, people joining a cult? Because it's not going to be a cause.

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