She fabricated a story that Charles was trying to kill her the day before he was due to pick up JJ and take him for breakfast. And that he was abusive and enraged and going after her with a bat. She knew she had to find justification for killing him that her family and friends and law enforcement would accept. That's not insanity it's engineering an excuse, trying to get away with murder, and it's complete awareness that it was wrong. moo
Who knows how Lori is now? Not me.
Of course, if she can hide her actions, turn the zombie crazy off while being interviewed by the police, etc., she can participate in her defense. We don’t know if she is still able to do this.
I find it very unlikely that Lori is the same right now. If she were, the prosecutors would not have dropped their objection.
Crazy and competent are not the same thing, as I see it. She only has to be competent, not necessarily sane.
If she is “crazy” and believes she is a goddess, she could still be competent if she were making decisions about her defense, and has a grasp on the realistic consequences of asserting this. If she planned to present as her defense that her victims were indeed zombies, and knew that the jury would basically take that as a confession and convict her, she would be competent. Or, she could chose to say nothing because mortals don’t get it. That would be a competent person who is crazy.
I speculate Lori is not making choices as she did when she interviewed with the police. I trust that people who have seen her recently know better than I do.
I am not going to get into what we as a society owe her. I have my own opinions but I think that however they swing- thirst for blood or calls for compassion-they are irrelevant. And they could cause pain to the surviving victims. Some might want to torture her. Some may want her treated with mercy. I am not going to upstage them.
