Killer Mom Sits Emotionless as Shocking Verdict is Read

A Georgia jury found Chloe Driver guilty on all counts for brutally stabbing her baby to death in 2020. Driver remained emotionless as the guilty verdict was read and is awaiting sentencing at a later date.
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Twenty-four-year-old mom Chloe Driver was charged with malice murder after she allegedly stabbed her 13-month-old daughter, Hannah, to death in 2020. When 911 was called, police said they found both the baby and Driver in her bedroom, each suffering from severe stab wounds. Chloe Driver is facing multiple charges, including murder and child cruelty. If convicted, she could face life behind bars.
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[@lawandcrimetrials]

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[@outofthesinking]

Correct verdict. Hannah didn't deserve this. Mental illness or not, that poor child suffered such a terrible death. The person responsible needs to be held accountable regardless.

[@abadabadoopat]

In Georgia, a defendant found guilty but mentally ill (GBMI) for a felony is sentenced the same as if they were found guilty of the offense: * They are incarcerated in an appropriate penal facility * They are evaluated and treated for their mental illness, if indicated, within the limits of state funds * The court determines whether and to what extent the defendant requires treatment A GBMI verdict means that the jury found that mental illness contributed to the defendant's actions, but did not override their judgment.

[@Petra-R]

Thank you for this explanation ❤

[@jasonfranklin3534]

Yes thank you very much for this explanation. So needed

[@CandiceMMartinez]

Thank you 😊

[@purplevelvet69]

Thank you so much💐

[@BeeDeBiase]

Thank you.

[@catalinacurio]

What a lovely judge, she’s open and transparent.

[@GraceAn3]

Yes, she is one of the better judges I have seen. Definitely better than the one on the last televised case from this county. (Melody Farris case)

[@BettiePagan]

Indeed! The respect this judge has for her jury demonstrates immense commitment to & fulfillment of her job description...a surprisingly bare minimum standard to see occurring in a US court 😅 Especially appropriate to have a compassionate judge capable of this standard of integrity for such an unsettling case, I cannot imagine a single member of the jury returning home and simply forgetting about what they saw & heard within this court room... ):

[@OnTheWeb-cotw]

How is it shocking? She admitted to killing that sweet baby

[@DeeFromTheD]

Exactly, no shocker

[@bentonja668]

The taxpayers of Georgia paying for her mental health treatment is the shocking part imo

[@CocoBella88]

@OnTheWeb-cotw the jury deemed her "mentally ill". The defense got their win in that regard.

[@AlexisRoark]

@@CocoBella88 I believe they wanted "not guilty by reason of insanity" which they did not get.

[@kendalldad]

​@@bentonja668It's the responsibility of society to provide treatment to the mentally ill when they are unable to do so for themselves. We are not Saudi Arabia.

[@evfredericks]

It’s shocking that she thought she would be found not guilty!

[@jerrytopater5760]

Chloe is pretty and had money. She could have escaped her "husband," given the baby up and started over but she made the worst choice ever. What a waste!

[@CocoBella88]

@evfredericks she was found guilty BUT mentally ill. So no prison instead she will be getting mental help in a facility in the state of Georgia.

[@keee582]

That’s not true. She might do time in a maximum security prison and get help for her mental illnesses but she will go to prison.

[@keee582]

And she was arguing that AT THE TIME she was insane, meaning that she isn’t anymore so there might not be a need for her to go to a hospital, it’s really up to the DOC.

[@CocoBella88]

@ thank you.

[@ladyjay6741]

Nothing Shocking here. RIP poor baby.

[@arlenevandeveer2244]

Thank you Jurors for the sentence

[@Nonna0228]

Verdict not sentence

[@SH3SS0CALIGIRL619]

@@Nonna0228😒You and everyone else knew that the person meant

[@Nonna0228]

@@SH3SS0CALIGIRL619 it wasn’t meant to criticize! What it was meant to do was educate if she lived out of the country and didn’t know our justice system

[@SH3SS0CALIGIRL619]

@@Nonna0228 😂

[@Wunderlust76]

Correct Verdict...now they'll get her mind right...to spend life in prison...Kudos Jury

[@cynthiamcdaniel2474]

Well said.

[@Runaddict1167]

Correct verdict.

[@mamabear1324]

​@Fayw2023No, that only happens if she got found not guilty. Because reason of insanity, the guilty with mental illness means she'll be in prison.

[@snowblo1]

She's probably going to a mental facility, not a criminal prison.

[@snowblo1]

​@@mamabear1324Oh wow, I think I got it wrong then. I thought the verdict meant she'll be in some posh facility for the "criminally insane."

[@CanadianRaven-s1p]

Her mom wants to speak for her daughter and prob ask for a light sentence....but who will make a victum statement for little baby Hannah.

[@CaraMills0106]

I don't feel the verdict was shocking. I feel empathy for girls or guys who feel so empty themselves they attach themselves to cult leaders, men, or women who control them. Hannah is the little life lost because she was born to these parents.

[@jerrytopater5760]

She hated her "husband" and because he loved his daughter so much Chloe took it out on her in the most brutal and horrfic way imaginable!

[@CaraMills0106]

@jerrytopater5760 I don't think she hated her husband she was under his control. She tried to kill herself and her daughter to punish him. He would take her daughter away from her and not tell her where she was. He made her need him and drove her pshyco.

[@louloubelle1330]

😂😂😂😂😂 like it's his fault it is what it is. They are WHOLE ADULTS, and you forget the CHILD SHE STABBED TO DEATH who were loved by him an put above all others

[@iamagainstyourpillows5162]

Type law and crime shocking verdict into KZbin they say that for everything

[@janewinkworth8729]

Heartbreaking .

[@100Mickl]

Why - she murdered a child

[@esmegreeff6194]

Justice has been served RiP little Hannah ✝️🌻🙏🏼

[@arlenevandeveer2244]

Justice for baby Hannah 👍❤❤❤❤❤😢😢😢😢😢

[@lovetohuntlovetohunt6241]

Thank you Jurors

[@danielk2715]

Where was Benyamin during all of this? They didn't think of making the father of that little girl testify?

[@gail22213]

I was so hoping they would have him as a witness. He's either in jail or hiding under a rock.

[@Xianne027]

What would he have had to say but a bunch of insane gibberish?

[@CrazyMaryJo]

Glad we did not have to listen to his B.S. Glad he was not given a platform.

[@moda78z]

I doubt it would have been helpful. They definitely made the right decision. I wouldn’t have called him either.

[@Xianne027]

@@OttawaAndy Exactly. He would have just given the same convoluted, insane, nonsensical rhetoric.

[@julieshelley-fd5kp]

Prison Justice. Another parent killing their kid-this is everyday news, sad

[@rikkitikkitavi997]

Shocking verdict? Not really. I half way expected it. It doesn’t get her out of prison. Now that would be shocking.

[@iamagainstyourpillows5162]

Type law and crime shocking verdict into KZbin they say that for everything

[@mezame1626]

Never ever let her out 🤬

[@leighdavis9522]

Life in prison, with parole after 30 years. But the Parole Board will probably keep denying her release.

[@anni610]

RIP Hannah 🤍

[@poipukauai7398]

What a horrific act

[@karina-oh7826]

What a horrific situation for everyone involved, not just the act as though no one else has been hurt or even traumatized by the act. ❤❤❤

[@paulad3261]

I don't think Chloe is mentally ill. I think she's a cold, calculated brat. I'm glad she isn't walking free.

[@nichellefreightman1213]

Agreed!! I feel she wanted that man to herself and didn't want the other two ladies to be there. I'm glad the juor saw passed that mental illness

[@Kentuckygardengal]

Very impressed with this judge.

[@carol1585]

They got it right!

[@e_b_]

So does that mean psych ward, then prison? Does anybody know what 'guilty but mentally ill' means in terms of possible sentencing?

[@user-fc2xk3uv8y]

she will likely get mental health treatment in prison

[@TheGdav0202]

She goes to jail. She receives mental health treatment whilst incarcerated.

[@e_b_]

@@user-fc2xk3uv8y thanks 😊

[@e_b_]

@@TheGdav0202 thanks 😊

[@Sunset553]

Possibly sentenced to a prison mental health facility

[@darladevries7401]

Wheres the father of Hannah??? What happened to him???

[@SunFlower-sf1go]

Even if I were held in a cult against my will and forced to drink my pee, I would never stab any baby let alone my own baby!

[@traceonthecase]

But you're not mentally ill are you

[@julie-nw6ql]

You so dont know that for sure ....

[@lindasimons691]

@@julie-nw6qlNot everyone gets sucked in. Are some people predisposed?

[@mayday-fc4zn]

Great job jury! She has a mental illness but that had nothing to do with killing her daughter. After hearing the recorded call between her & her mother, I saw a different side. She is obsessed with Z and her money, no mention ever of Hannah, no empathy, selfish. Only mentioned mom should give $5k to Z for the funeral reimbursement, never even said her baby’s name. I don’t know if she ever loved the baby.😢

[@Nala1026]

I totally agree 100% !!!! She was NOT insane and only wanted that pos for a man to hear she indeed is mental and she needs to do her time for HER crime.

[@iamagainstyourpillows5162]

Her defense attorneys SUNK HER by calling her mom to the stand...

[@wesleychriswell8429]

Take someone's life than lose yours!!!!!!

[@MelissasVoice]

Why are these killers so shocked when they are found guilty? Are you even kidding me!?!

[@JamieVileOfficial]

The verdict was shocking? How about the crime?….geez

[@AnitaMartinez-l3m]

Evil, just evil.

[@LornaBates-n8d]

thank you jury you got it right!!

[@songbirds3712]

I think the reason for “shocking” is the fact that on all counts she was found “guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but mentally ill.” I have never heard a verdict worded like that.

[@tracikonrad3605]

She was mentally ill before she was part of the cult , it's got to be some mentally ill health there or you wouldn't have committed murder , she's still guilty of her crimes because she knew right for wrong even as she did what she did to her baby

[@SH3SS0CALIGIRL619]

It simply means she won’t be transferred to a psych ward.. she’ll be getting her mental health treatment from the prison🥳lucky her.

[@jasonharris1636]

Wonderful job by the Madame Prosecutor

[@mariannecoker5895]

She'll be sentenced to prison but she will receive mental treatment while she is in prison the only time you go to the mental hospital is if they find you insane at the time of the crime

[@krispeekream]

In all fairness mental health treatment in prison is (notoriously) a joke.

[@mariannecoker5895]

@krispeekream I agree with you it is mental health in prison is a joke and it's a real shame

[@krystaldaniels7940]

From what I’ve read, she would go to a mental hospital and after she’s well then she’d be transferred to prison to complete her sentence

[@TheTruth-kh2im]

I don't wanna look at this woman anymore. Every time I see her, it just makes me sick. She's cruel. I noticed she's still here. Say Goodbye to your boyfriend because he's not gonna be visiting you. And you destroyed his child. He'll get tired of her real quick.

[@tracikonrad3605]

If you watch all these women that kill their children they all have the same pattern in the way want you to believe that they both either mental or someone kidnapped the child or the child runaway they all have that look and manorialism to them right down to the crying and the child like damels in distress as she was doing though out the trial

[@keee582]

For anyone who doesn’t understand what will happen with a “guilty but mentally ill”: She will still do prison time. She will be placed in the department of corrections care and it’s up to their discretion if they think she needs to be at a hospital for some of her sentence. She will be punished exactly as if she was found just guilty. Just because you have a mental illness/illnesses doesn’t mean you can’t be responsible for your actions. She knew it was wrong. She knew what she was doing. She knew what weapon she wanted to use (even researching which ways to do it) etc Personally, I think the jury got it right. There was just no proof that she was insane at the time of the act. Also, for people saying the “cult” should be charged also. Absolutely not. They didn’t stab their baby. Should this Ben or Z guy be charged with assault, fraud, battery, and a whole bunch of other things, most definitely, he’s sounds like a horrible human but you can’t put her actions on him. She chose what to do herself.

[@iamagainstyourpillows5162]

He's facing us Leo felony charges once he resurfaces back on the grid...

[@leighdavis9522]

She's been sentenced to life in prison with parole.

[@EliRodriguez-lh6rf]

Every murderer claims mental illness get real 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@mamabear1324]

Watch this case, they have the insanity defense for a reason. She is obviously mentally ill. I do believe in this case. It is not an excuse. Yes, a lot of people use it as an excuse, but if you watched this case you wouldn't know what absolutely applies to her.

[@Uncaged_cricket]

No they don’t, and if they do they arent found insane. She was found insane by 3 forensic psychologists.

[@karina-oh7826]

Do they? I know that some do in order to lessen their recompense that’s forthcoming, but those liars and fakers are found out pretty quickly that they are just liars and fakers. This young woman underwent a horrible ordeal for years within that cult and already had episodes in her young home life that certainly laid the groundwork for this situation to become a disaster. My friend, you would benefit greatly by cultivating not only compassion, but also the insight needed to read between the lines…❤❤❤

[@invisiblue3212]

That's an incorrect statement. Get real.

[@junetomlin1]

@@mamabear1324 I HAVE A SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS BUT NECER COULD HURT ANYONE EXCEPT MYSELF I LOST TWO BABIES AND A DAUGHTER WHO KILLED HERSELF SO FOR KILLING A LITTLE DEFENCELESS BABY ,I REALLY CANT SAY WHAT I THINK OF HER ON HERE

[@TomLan-j8n]

She was not mentally ill. I just hope she gets prison.

[@TheGdav0202]

She gets prison. She was found guilty. All the mentally ill bit means that she receives psychiatric care whilst incarcerated.

[@robingalbraith323]

not acccording to the verdict. thats exactly what it means.

[@gailreineke7186]

@@TheGdav0202Aren’t there still psychiatric prisons for mentally ill murderers?

[@theresamelo3901]

I agree, not mentally ill. She was unmanageable teen & chose involvement Benyamin who found a young naive victim . She had many opportunities to "choose" alternate paths but un- like his first "wife", Chloe hasn't been able to separate herself from him, even after killing their child. How is it mental illness because she couldn't have the man exclusively so she chose to take the child & herself out of the picture.

[@tranquility9325]

​@@theresamelo3901call the court and tell them that she's not mentally ill.

[@inuchan74]

There is nothing shocking about this verdict.

[@Mimisof4]

Wait where are all of her faces she had during the trial 🤦‍♀️

[@KPD017]

Jury got it right.

[@iamagainstyourpillows5162]

The jury always gets it right. That's how the 12 person system works. It's the community speaking

[@SharonM-b1g]

The Jurors got it right. I hope she gets help x

[@iamagainstyourpillows5162]

The jury never misses

[@Hayday.1979]

Shocking? Seriously? Come on law & crime…you’re better than that.

[@isabelferreira6660]

Very TRAGIC😊

[@georgegeysen6499]

These comments below are curious. I am glad I watched this video myself. Guilty, but mentally ill. A valid verdict. We don't have to agree, but it seems like the process of the trial resulted in a just verdict based on a reasonable doubt. That's what our constitution and applicable State statutes provides. The judge did an excellent job explaining this process. I hope that should your family or loved ones experience a similar situation, that you will also experience a reasonable and just outcome.

[@TheGdav0202]

What reasonable doubt? She was found guilty. Do you know what the word guilty means?

[@TheGdav0202]

The only thing the mentally ill bit means is that she receives psychiatric care while she's doing her jail time because she's guilty.

[@today1more2]

​@@TheGdav0202Thanks for clarifying. I was wondering what it meant. I wasn't for sure on this case.

[@CrazyMaryJo]

@@today1more2psychiatric prison care is mostly medication 💊 followed by 15 minute one on one 4 times a year. ….most prisons. Even if she is housed in a prison psyche ward, which I assure you she will not like at all.

[@today1more2]

@CrazyMaryJo I wanted to make sure of that. She definitely deserves prison. At one point in the trial, I was almost feeling empathy for her. Then I heard how many chances she had to get little Hannah away from that mess and how she continued to convince people in jail to use their phone codes to secretly contact her so-called husband, I lost all empathy. I'm not so sure she even had delusions. She probably just had jealous rage because she wanted him all to herself and killed baby Hannah to get back at him. If she had wanted to die she would be dead.

[@rosarioharker]

Not emotions at all..😮

[@nikkib3549]

THOU SHALT NOT KILL

[@sf78310]

Excellent verdict!

[@joegagnon2268]

Nefarious demoniac

[@AngelaDuarte-tz1zs]

jury got it right!

[@katherinekuhn8142]

By putting mentally ill after each verdict does it mean. She was insane at times of crime

[@justlookin1414]

That's my question as well

[@wolfgalleader]

She was found not insane in the moment of the crime. So she was aware of what she was doing, she was aware she killing her baby, however, she was doing so because she was so mentally ill. Insane in a legal form is a very specific state of mind during the action of the crime without the context of any other time. Its hard for the defense to fight it, as she admits that she was aware that it was her child and that her actions would result in the death of the child. Morally =/= Legality. Because morally, she was out of her mind thinking that by killing her kid she was saving the baby. But that doesn't matter legally.

[@leighdavis9522]

She had a mental illness but was not criminally insane.

[@ellenjean7744]

Sad

[@MG-ot2yr]

That's not a shocking verdict, a shocking verdict would have been not guilty.

[@ajvourakis]

She’s sitting there emotionless because she’s known from the time she woke up in that hospital that this is what was coming. She’s less shocked than she would be at a gentle breeze on an autumn day. She’s resigned herself to this a long time ago. She accepted her fate.

[@mayday-fc4zn]

I’m wondering if she is really mentally ill or brainwashed by cult. Very different. She’s completely rational and lucid on jail calls. She reminds me of a battered woman more than delusional with her hundreds of calls and attempts to reach Z. He’s all that matters to her and her fraud money. RIP baby Hannah.

[@wesleychriswell8429]

Mom is so lost for words😢

[@_Siyana8_]

The judge is laughing 😮

[@aprilsgiggle]

This judge is phenomenal! She wasn't laughing. She's very caring, calm, and appreciative of the jury. She holds herself to a high standard as well as her courtroom. I for one am happy to see a judge of her caliber televised.

[@Kentuckygardengal]

@@aprilsgiggleagreed.

[@Thumper_rabbithole]

No remorse no emotions nothing

[@mrs.nancygancy3321]

No emotions…I’m sure she’s spent time preparing to go to prison. Her relationship with her husband and wives was a prison. She’s going from one cell to another. The case, testimonies are emotionally exhausting.

[@fancykitty7245]

Does this mean she goes with Yates in a mental hospital?

[@edrrobb1988]

No that's a ruling in Georgia that they have. That means that mental illness played a role but did not stop her from being able to make correct decisions. So she goes to prison but she gets evaluated and treated for mental illness is also.

[@leighdavis9522]

Prison.

[@VeronicaJohnson-so3pb]

That was the correxct verdict

[@10162ellisdr]

So now she wants to cry Mentally ill She wasn't sick when she killed that baby that was she She only got sick (Mentally ill) when she found out she was going to jail

[@bluefeather9782]

I hope she gets help in jail. She needs it

[@moda78z]

Shocking?

[@tracycavallucci5367]

I would have found the same verdict as the jury in this case, as sickening and tragic as it is. Such a shame and the baby got her justice. Mom will be going to prison.

[@Fugubro754]

She is scum and did this to get even

[@sj6052]

Mentally ill, my Aunt Bertha!

[@Koolneen]

Nah..she’s evil, not “sick.”

[@Twotinyhomes]

Does it mean prison or psych ward?

[@loribentivogli9835]

Probably psych ward

[@Fugubro754]

@@loribentivogli9835she is scum and needs to never see the light of day

[@jessicamemyselfandi7030]

Prison just shorter terms with mental health involvement.

[@geoffwilliams1025]

Pysch ward 100%

[@Hamilton8122]

Wards aren’t great but a lot nicer than prison which she truly deserves.

[@Fergie66813]

She had untreated Post partum Depression that Made her Paranoid.She did this as a way to Escape what Her Momma said she got her own self into.She wasn't Mentally ill about the Money tho.

[@user-lw3iu2ig2l]

I'm glad they realized her mental health issues and hope she receives the help she needs.

[@CandiceMMartinez]

She's going to prison as she deserves. She'll receive treatment in prison

[@MOAB-UT]

Judge MUST stop saying AHHHH and Ahhhm. Soooooooooooooooooo annoying Ahhhhhhhh.

[@Avapreppy563]

That’s a fair verdict but what does it mean?

[@leighdavis9522]

She was sentenced to life in prison.

[@LaLa-jh7mo]

She is NOT mentally ill and this sets a frightening precedent. Terrible job on the part of everyone involved.

[@cherylschien4274]

I guess you know more about mental illness than the three people that evaluated her 🤣🤦‍♀️

[@avival66]

La acusada no esta SIN EMOCION ella aparenta extremadamente tensa y deprimida.

[@cevenol3152]

No problem with the verdict. This young woman was the victim of a guru whose right-hand man Jason Allen Spillers "Tex watson" did not hesitate to strike a courageous woman who tried to intervene to prevent the members of the sect from recovering Driver and her child. Creepy.

[@CMpuffin]

I also thought of all the parallels to the Manson Family case. Like all those members, I believe she should still be held accountable. Thankful she was.

[@lilbitsleepy2574]

Seems a fair judgement. She may have been mentally ill, but she knew what she was doing. I hope that she stays in prison for a very long time though. With mental health treatment. RIP now baby Hannah

[@tencentpistol1]

A jury got it right...for once 👍

[@cherielafleur3137]

For once? With nearly 50,000 Juries per year in the US, and each separate Juror doing their civic duty, please delineate 49,000+ that got it wrong to include case numbers.

[@tencentpistol1]

​@@cherielafleur3137 I'm not gonna delineate anything but what I will address is your inability to decipher a figure of speech from a factual statement. See, a "figure of speech" is a type of illustrative statement that doesn't necessarily include "truths" or "facts" but uses allegory to prove a point, where a "factual statement" is well, a statement of fact. That said, I'll also clear up my original statement by saying that IT WAS SARCASM, WIT. Things you obviously lack. Thank you for your reply, now go outside, the adults are talking

[@tencentpistol1]

​@@cherielafleur3137​ oh, and one last point(besides the one on top your head) 50k juries per year(your numbers not mine) at 12 jurors per case(not including alternates) would come out to around 600k jurors per year, not the "49,000+" that you claim in whatever "maths" you used(which you are also in desperate need of a refresher course in)...

[@cherielafleur3137]

@tencentpistol1 oh my, struck a nerve! You may want to take a moment from your pulpit to comprehend the use of a comma and an ellipsis in sentence structure prior to pulling out your calculator.

[@tencentpistol1]

​@@cherielafleur3137 "struck a nerve"? Nah. I am struck by your stupidity and ability to remember to breathe. And also how somehow manage to type words using those cloven hooves you mistakenly call hands

[@NunYaBizNus1]

So what’s this mean??

[@leighdavis9522]

Prison, instead of a mental facility.

[@geoffwilliams1025]

Yes she will spend her time in a pysch unit, the rest of her life? highly unlikely, more like a set amount of years set out by the judge, then, after that if those involved deem her safe for release she ill get out with continued care in the community. If your expecting life forget it, shes been proven mentally ill on all counts which makes a massive difference to her sentencing following the judicial guidelines. In my opinion the jury got it right, she must pay but shes clearly not a full xmas tree.

[@TheGdav0202]

No psych unit. Psychiatric care whilst in prison.

[@Monica_Escobar]

No, not the case. Mentally ill and insane are not the same.

[@myvoiceishorse6453]

Guilty but mentally ill means (according to Google)... In Florida, a defendant who is found guilty but mentally ill (GBMI) is sentenced in the same way as any other defendant who is found guilty. The court will then determine if the defendant needs mental health treatment and to what extent. The defendant will receive mental health treatment and then serve the remainder of their sentence in prison.

[@Fergie66813]

This is Georgia

[@edrrobb1988]

That's what they do in Georgia also

[@danielholt6741]

Off the streets for awhile.

[@leighdavis9522]

At least 30 years.

[@davinxi5926]

Death penalty ?

[@leighdavis9522]

Life with parole after 30 years.

[@timothyfreeseha4056]

I think guilty but mentally ill covers it. The jury took a sober look at this case .

[@Here4it247]

Despicable verdict

[@jmoore1939]

I think they got this right.. if she hadn't stabbed herself too It would be just evil but she definitely has a screw loose somewhere she knew what she was doing though

[@theresamelo3901]

She is evil, she was coherent/aware of her actions before, during & after the act. She knew Benyamin wouldn't change to what she wanted & can't live without him so she selfishly chose to take the child & herself out of the picture

[@wesleychriswell8429]

To many ahhhh

[@Nanny.1981]

Correct verdict

[@duchessmartinez2035]

The title..... shocking?

[@Gigi-MN]

What does this mean? Mentally ill doesn’t mean insane so is she going to prison or a hospital

[@CandiceMMartinez]

Prison

[@iamagainstyourpillows5162]

Shield basically will be going to a hospital. But it's not guaranteed.. Certain states can't make up their mind

[@leighdavis9522]

Life in prison with parole after 30 years.

[@17thJuror77]

She will be out into a mental hospital correct?!

[@suelutz5364]

I think she'll be in prison, with treatment for her mental illness. That's my understanding. We'll know more at the actual sentencing.

[@edrrobb1988]

Yes, that's exactly what happens with this ruling

[@leighdavis9522]

She was sentenced to life in prison with parole after 30 years.

[@leighdavis9522]

​@@edrrobb1988Prison, not a mental hospital.

[@et1016]

They will take care of her in prison.

[@Zebco4U]

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[@nicksery791]

Benyamin needs to be held accountable in some way too

[@iamagainstyourpillows5162]

He's facing several felonies once he's back on the grid

[@rosered103]

Is someone able to explain what will happen at sentencing after the guilty with mental illness?

[@edrrobb1988]

This is not the same as guilty by reason of insanity in Georgia. They have this ruling and it means that mental illness played some part but didn't contribute enough that she couldn't have made a correct decision. So she will be sent to prison but she will be evaluated and treated as much as funds allow for some mental illness

[@rosered103]

@@edrrobb1988 Thank you for taking the time to write a great answer. I had it in mind when sentenced the Judge would send her to a mental institute for the criminally insane. And then when mental health stabilized, transferred to a prison.

[@edrrobb1988]

@rosered103 I got most of it from another comment so they get the real credit! But you are welcome

[@Elderly-Marian-in-UK]

Will she get prison justice wherever she's sent? I think she deserves some kind of comeuppance thats stronger than a cushy phych ward.

[@CrazyMaryJo]

Our prison psych wards are not cushy. Far from it.

[@albatraoz7045]

why was this verdict "shocking"?

[@lisamarie6110]

Do they go to prison or a treatment facility when mental illness plays a part?

[@edrrobb1988]

This is not the same as guilty by reason of insanity in Georgia. They have this ruling and it means that they found that some mental illness contributed but not enough that she couldn't have made a correct decision. So she will go to prison but she will be evaluated there and treated as much as funds allow for some mental illness also