Weki
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Just thinking out loud as someone who didn’t follow the trial and just getting the gist from comments here…..I don’t think you can use medication as a mitigation in the guilt phase maybe for sentencing, right? If they present evidence saying the medication made her do it, it’s quite prejudicial for the state I would think. If the medication was for mental health reasons especially I would imagine it’s prejudicial and not probative and that’s why it’s kept out. IANAL so take with a grain of salt. I think maybe also she would have to testify to bring that evidence in. She would have to say I was having this or that reaction to medication and that’s why this happened. But that just makes her more culpable not less. JMOFrankly I don't understand this whole case. Experts testifying after jury is sent out to deliberate? And about some facts that could account for her behavior??? Why could that not be part of her defense? If one doc is writing all these scripts what is going on there? She had to be getting them legally I assume. And as a patient maybe she did not realize what they were doing to her judgement etc? Can anyone explain what I am missing?