Denver: Colorado: Lawyer says woman's "psychotic break" explains stepson's killing
Posted: Sun May 07, 2023 6:18 am
Denver: Colorado: Lawyer says woman's "psychotic break" explains stepson's killing
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DENVER - A lawyer for a Colorado woman who repeatedly stabbed and then shot her 11-year-old stepson before driving his body across the country said Friday that the brutality of the attack was the strongest evidence that the killing was the result of a "psychotic break."
During closing arguments in Letecia Stauch's murder trial in Colorado Springs, Josh Tolini urged jurors to find her not guilty by reason of insanity. He emphasized that she would be kept confined at the state mental hospital if they reached that verdict in the 2020 killing of Gannon Stauch. Tolini said prosecutors had not shown why the special needs teacher would want to kill the slight 80-pound boy she cared for and lived with in such a violent way.
"This wasn't a pre-planned calculated killing for some gain. This was a psychotic break fueled by rage attacking a demon from the past," he said in court before jurors began deliberations.
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https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/lawyer-say ... -1.6386657
DENVER - A lawyer for a Colorado woman who repeatedly stabbed and then shot her 11-year-old stepson before driving his body across the country said Friday that the brutality of the attack was the strongest evidence that the killing was the result of a "psychotic break."
During closing arguments in Letecia Stauch's murder trial in Colorado Springs, Josh Tolini urged jurors to find her not guilty by reason of insanity. He emphasized that she would be kept confined at the state mental hospital if they reached that verdict in the 2020 killing of Gannon Stauch. Tolini said prosecutors had not shown why the special needs teacher would want to kill the slight 80-pound boy she cared for and lived with in such a violent way.
"This wasn't a pre-planned calculated killing for some gain. This was a psychotic break fueled by rage attacking a demon from the past," he said in court before jurors began deliberations.