The protection lawyer for 15-year-old Carly Gregg says their shopper deserves a brand new trial as a result of she was beforehand handled for listening to voices utilizing horse remedy.
In Sept., a jury in Rankin County, Mississippi, discovered Gregg, 15, responsible on all counts, and prosecutor Kathryn Newman stated Gregg had proven “zero regret.”
The teenager was charged with homicide and aggravated assault within the March 19 capturing that killed her mom, 40-year-old Ashley Smylie, and wounded her stepfather, Heath Smylie. She was additionally charged with tampering with proof for hiding a safety digicam after the capturing.
On the primary and second counts, Gregg was sentenced to life in jail. On the third rely, she acquired 10 years.
Throughout her preliminary courtroom look, Carly Gregg pled not responsible to the costs. Her bond was set at $1 million. She is being held within the Rankin County Grownup Detention Heart. (Rankin County)
Viral footage, proven within the trial, confirmed the chilling moments when the teenager opened fireplace on her mom.
Now, Gregg’s protection stated that the teenager’s father revealed that she was “positioned in equestrian remedy as a younger little one as a result of experiencing auditory hallucinations.”
“This new data helps Dr. Clark’s prognosis of unspecified schizophrenic dysfunction and is prone to result in a unique consequence at a brand new trial,” the protection stated. “As such, Carly is entitled to a brand new trial.”
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The protection argued that the “undisputed proof” of the circumstances main as much as Gregg’s motion ought to end in a mistrial.
“The undisputed proof at trial of Carly’s psychological sickness, loving relationship along with her mom and stepfather, absence of prior prison expenses, absence of prior violence, good college file, maternal household help, neighborhood help, the sufferer’s testimony that Carly was not in her proper thoughts and didn’t acknowledge him on the time of the offense, and the State’s admission to an absence of motive to commit the alleged crimes don’t help the decision or sentence on this case,” the protection wrote.
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“Subsequently, this matter requires a brand new trial, or within the different, a judgment however the decision,” they stated.
The footage confirmed Carly Gregg moments after she allegedly opened fireplace and killed her mom in March 2024. (YouTube/ Legislation&Crime Trials)
Decide Dewey Arthur disagreed in a choice, saying that no data revealed warranted a brand new trial.
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“This Court docket particularly finds that no new and materials [sic] has been found which most likely would produce a unique consequence at trial and, by affordable diligence, this proof couldn’t have been found sooner,” Arthur wrote.
“The Court docket reviewed the statements and finds these statements wouldn’t have most likely produced a unique consequence at trial,” he stated.
