Mississippi teen killer's defense advocates for new trial because she was in horse ‘therapy,' hearing voices

The defence lawyer for 15-year-old Carly Gregg says their lawsuit deserves a caller proceedings due to the fact that she was antecedently treated for proceeding voices utilizing equine therapy.

In Sept., a assemblage successful Rankin County, Mississippi, recovered Gregg, 15, blameworthy connected each counts, and authoritative Kathryn Newman said Gregg had shown "zero remorse."

The teen was charged with murder and aggravated assault successful the March 19 shooting that killed her mother, 40-year-old Ashley Smylie, and wounded her stepfather, Heath Smylie. She was besides charged with tampering with grounds for hiding a information camera aft the shooting. 

On the archetypal and 2nd counts, Gregg was sentenced to beingness successful prison. On the 3rd count, she received 10 years.

TEEN KILLER CARLY GREGG SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR GUNNING DOWN MOTHER AFTER SHOCKING VIDEO SURFACED

During her archetypal tribunal appearance, Carly Gregg pled not blameworthy to the charges. Her enslaved was acceptable astatine $1 million. She is being held successful the Rankin County Adult Detention Center. (Rankin County)

Viral footage, shown successful the trial, showed the chilling moments erstwhile the teen opened occurrence connected her mother.

Now, Gregg's defence said that the teen's begetter revealed that she was "placed successful equestrian therapy arsenic a young kid owed to experiencing auditory hallucinations."

"This caller accusation supports Dr. Clark’s diagnosis of unspecified schizophrenic disorder and is apt to pb to a antithetic effect astatine a caller trial," the defence said. "As such, Carly is entitled to a caller trial."

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The defence argued that the "undisputed evidence" of the circumstances starring up to Gregg's enactment should effect successful a mistrial.

"The undisputed grounds astatine proceedings of Carly’s intelligence illness, loving narration with her parent and stepfather, lack of anterior transgression charges, lack of anterior violence, bully schoolhouse record, maternal household support, assemblage support, the victim’s grounds that Carly was not successful her close caput and did not admit him astatine the clip of the offense, and the State’s admittance to an lack of motive to perpetrate the alleged crimes bash not enactment the verdict oregon condemnation successful this case," the defence wrote.

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"Therefore, this substance calls for a caller trial, oregon successful the alternative, a judgement notwithstanding the verdict," they said.

The footage showed Carly Gregg moments aft she allegedly opened occurrence and killed her parent successful March 2024. (YouTube/ Law&Crime Trials)

Judge Dewey Arthur disagreed successful a decision, saying that nary accusation revealed warranted a caller trial.

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"This Court specifically finds that nary caller and worldly [sic] has been discovered which astir apt would nutrient a antithetic effect astatine proceedings and, by tenable diligence, this grounds could not person been discovered sooner," Arthur wrote.

"The Court reviewed the statements and finds these statements would not person astir apt produced a antithetic effect astatine trial," helium said.