Moment Carly Gregg, 15, SMILES as she learns her sentence after being found guilty of shooting her mom in Mississippi

Carly Gregg has been sentenced to 2 counts of beingness successful situation conscionable 30 minutes aft she was recovered blameworthy of murdering her mom and trying to termination her stepdad.

The 15-year-old sobbed arsenic the blameworthy verdict was delivered by the assemblage connected Friday afternoon, conscionable 2 hours aft they broke for deliberation.

But by the clip she returned to the tribunal country to perceive her sentence, a grin was plastered each implicit her look again. 

She volition service 2 beingness sentences concurrently for the charges of execution and attempted murder, arsenic good arsenic 10 years for tampering with grounds successful the case.

The last complaint relates to a determination Gregg made to teardrop a CCTV camera down from her room and fell it successful the refrigerator aft shooting her mom, Ashley, dormant successful the home on March 19.

Her ineligible squad unsuccessfully argued she was truthful mentally unwell astatine the clip of the transgression that she should beryllium recovered not blameworthy owed to insanity.  

They earlier rejected a 40-year plea woody offered by Mississippi state prosecutors. 

The assemblage deliberated for conscionable 30 minutes connected whether she should walk the remainder of her beingness down bars, with oregon without the anticipation of parole. 

Prosecutor Katherine Newman had urged them not to permission unfastened immoderate possiblity that Gregg could aboriginal beryllium paroled.

'Ladies and gentlemen she is dangerous. She whitethorn look similar a small girl, they whitethorn person said she is saccharine small Carly, but unfortunatley that is not true,' she said.

'We inquire you condemnation Ms Gregg to beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole.' 

Ms Newman told the assemblage that it was 'scarier' for her to 'not cognize why' Gregg committed the crimes, noting that 'if we don't cognize why, what's to accidental it won't hap again?'

Gregg sobbed arsenic Ms Newman posed that question, shaking her caput and mouthing the connection 'no.' 

Earlier, her lawyer was seen comforting her and telling her 'it's going to beryllium okay', to which she responded 'no, it's not.' 

The tribunal heard Gregg, past 14, kept a diary successful which she wrote 5 'beliefs' she held, including: 'there is nary God', 'heaven and hellhole are false' and 'writing your ain destiny.'

Ms Newman connected Friday drew the jury's attraction to the last 2 'beliefs' Gregg had listed successful her journal.

'These 2 basal retired to maine ladies and gentlemen, she told america what her intent was,' Newman said, holding a portion of insubstantial arsenic she work the last notes.

'You don't request family, and it's good to beryllium evil.'

Elsewhere successful the journal, Gregg wrote: 'I choose fire. It is powerful, beauteous and deadly. These are the traits I desire, truthful I take fire.'

Gregg's defence argued that the journals overgarment a representation of a mentally unwell kid who had repeatedly elaborate conscionable however overmuch she was struggling. 

Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jason Pickett told the assemblage helium had a antithetic speechmaking of the journals successful a cardinal adept grounds which annihilated the defense.

He questioned whether 'this is simply a idiosyncratic diary wherever idiosyncratic puts things they're truly trying to support secret, oregon is this a budding, articulate writer that describes things for theatrical reasons?'

Carly was repeatedly described by witnesses arsenic 'gifted,' agleam and intelligent.

Dr. Pickett work an introduction Gregg had written astir proceeding voices - a ailment the teen hadn't antecedently raised with her intelligence wellness professionals - and said helium was 'highly skeptical of that.'

'It seemed much theatrical and making airy of something. Patients who truly endure this, they are haunted by it, it is rather torturous to them. They bash not trivialize it.'

Gregg's ineligible squad person hinged its defence connected the assertion that the teen was truthful haunted by voices, trauma and intelligence wellness issues that she disassociated and blacked retired for the play of clip erstwhile the crimes were committed.

In closing arguments connected Friday, her lawyers said determination was nary disputing the information that Gregg loved her parent and stepfather.

The defence besides noted that Gregg had nary convulsive history, and that her actions connected March 19 came arsenic a daze to each who knew and treated her. 

Her maternal grandparents person stood by her successful the courtroom each time of the proceedings this week, and her stepfather has besides not abandoned her. They each appeared stunned arsenic the verdict was handed down.

When audio was played of her stepdad's frantic telephone to constabulary aft helium was shot, Gregg covered her ears with her hands and squeezed her eyes closed. 

Defense lawyer Bridget Todd said Gregg believed her begetter had some bipolar upset and schizophrenia, and she had developed a paralyzing fearfulness of turning into him.

'Carly disquieted astir that each the time, due to the fact that that's thing her ma disquieted astir each the time,' the assemblage heard.

'Her ma often disquieted that Carly was going to extremity up with the aforesaid intelligence illnesses her dada had, due to the fact that they're hereditary.'

Experts for the authorities person questioned whether her dada did person those intelligence illnesses, oregon if helium had symptoms that presented arsenic specified owed to his cause addictions.

Both sides described Ashley arsenic a 'loving mother' whose satellite 'revolved astir Carly.'

'Carly was the emotion of her mother's life,' they some said.

But Todd said Ashley was besides overprotective, successful ample portion due to the fact that she'd already mislaid 1 kid - a girl who died from a wellness information years prior.

'Do you honestly judge that loving, overprotective parent would... enactment her kid connected antidepressant medicine erstwhile she herself had had horrible broadside affects? 

'You can't archer maine that Ashley Smylie, arsenic loving and protective arsenic she was, would've taken that hazard with Carly if it wasn't required.

'This was not a atrocious kid. This was not a kid who was enraged. This is not a kid who had hatred successful her bosom for her parent oregon her stepfather, successful fact, it was the nonstop opposite. This was a kid who was experiencing important intelligence wellness issues. The aforesaid intelligence wellness issues that ran successful her household that we cognize are hereditary,' she said.

'This is simply a kid who was compliant with the medicine she was enactment on, however, that medication... caused her symptoms to worsen. And portion she was having a authorities of psychosis successful an occurrence of acute accent connected March 19, she mislaid herself successful what was the cleanable storm.' 

Gregg, who turned 15 successful situation but was 14 astatine the clip of the alleged crime, was smiling and giggling beside her lawyer on Thursday greeting up of the state's rebuttal, but wrong 9 hours her full demeanor had changed.

She was seen actively warring backmost tears connected Thursday afternoon, pursuing the grounds of Dr. Pickett.

Dr. Pickett was the prosecution's closing witness, who attempted to systemically dismantle the defence case, 1 statement astatine a time.

He told the tribunal helium does not judge Gregg has bipolar disorder, and helium said his nonrecreational sentiment was that she was sane astatine the clip of her mom's death.

Dr. Pickett said Gregg had 'some psychopathic traits' - a connection helium 'does not instrumentality lightly.'

'She is charming and precise likeable,' helium said. 'I liked her erstwhile I did the interview. I don't similar saying these things,' helium said.

The statements were each disputed by the defense's psychiatrist, Dr. Andrew Clark, who had earlier said helium diagnosed her with bipolar 2 disorder.

He said helium did not deliberation Gregg was 'able to recognize the quality of her behaviour and admit the quality betwixt close and wrong' astatine the clip of the incident.