[GirlySports]

I did not follow this trial much but the crime of a mother murdering a child is a special one. Special obstacles to gaining conviction in the minds of jurors.

In some ways, this is the single most vile, most unacceptable crime possible. In the juror's mind, he doesn't want to consider the possibility that their own mother was capable of snuffing them, which is a natural extension of convicting the mother standing before them. You're almost tricked into thinking.. this can't happen, no one would do this. The juror's mind is predisposed to grasp at any and all straws to break from consideration that any mother (their own mother) could murder her offspring. the juror's mind is looking for an excuse, a doubt. So there's a psychological bias right there.


I have no idea if it played out, and to what extent, in this case but that's what I keep thinking.