Defense Rests Case in Mother Stabbed Murder Trial
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- Опубликовано: 14 сен 2023
- Several experts testified that #SydneyPowell was legally insane when she killed her mother, #BrendaPowell, with a frying pan and a kitchen knife.
Powell's Defense has rested its case and closing arguments are expected to begin on Monday. Has the Defense proven its case that Sydney WAS suffering a psychotic break?
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This isn't a mentality ill person, its a spoiled brat that didn't want to deal with the consequences of her lies.
Perfectly said!
She even looks like a spoiled brat
Are you a doctor who has evaluated Sydney Powell?
Deep insight and empathy, well done.
@@jonathangeddes9786 every one has their opinion
No way I’d support my grandchild if they murdered my child!
No way she would be in my home. She would be hospitalized after bail.
Glad we're not related
Parents and grandparents never see the evil or evil deeds of their children or grandchildren. Never. Look at any case you want and you'll find the exact same thing, over and over again. I remember a case in which a daughter killed her whole family, including small siblings, in which the father survived after being shot some 11 times. Even after she admitted it to him in her own words from inside jail, he still didn't beleive it. Siblings, on the other hand, see right through the bullshit most of the time.
@@junehanzawa5165 😱
And this would have been the right thing to do. @@madisonohare4012
Kid? She’s 23. Not a kid. I’m sorry but this case is too much like chandler halderson.
I was married and already a mother and College graduate
The lengths they’re going to infantilize her is embarrassing
idk. Dr. Phil claims our brains arent fully grown until 25 and we really dont make clear or smart decisions.
ALL DAY LIKE CHANDLER HALDERSON SHE JUST DIDNT HAVE TIME TO GET RID OF THE BODY. OR PUT IT IN THE FIREPLACE
@@guntrader5652 Even the same age as CH, although I think this happened before. Even trying to lie by phone to school officials/ parents about their identity. I wonder if he was aware of this case? He should have learned something from it. She pleads insanity and he still flat out tries to deny his guilt. Crazy how he thought that he could ever get away with what he did. Rest in Peace Brenda, Krista and Bart.
The claim from her that it was a burglary makes it really hard for me to believe she was psychotic at the time
A psychotic person would be standing there holding the knife. She murdered in a rage then flipped out. That doesn't make her insane and not accountable
Exactly
Exactly, theyd not see that they had done anything wrong!
Not immediately lying and doing like every other DV killer always says
A la Jodi Arias
Exactly. A truly psychotic person can’t think of ways to cover up their crime ..
Bipolar yes as one doctor said! Schipzotypal is also reasonable but most seem normal mostly with this diagnosis and live normal on meds. She needs to go to prison at least 25 years.
She looks like she has no worries! I hope the jury doesn't fall for this BS!
She murdered her beautiful loving mother!!!
@@gailmorrashe is not getting away with it! Lockup for the criminally insane won’t be fun! Seems nobody told her this yet! She prob thinks she is going home!
she probably thinks she'll be sent back to Grandma's with a prescription requirement and that's all
Yeah, the behaviour of her family members that are still alive are really shocking. They are all in denial. Scandalous. @@christinametal1071
Because mental illness has a “look”; please clarify.
Guilty as hell.
She does not have everyone fooled. She was enraged when her princess image was shredded, after her lies were exposed and fluffed off her college courses. She is a malingerer and a spoiled brat. Her mom was onto her, but her dad was in his own world. As to the experts: high powered, higher guns.
He is still in his own world and remains in his own world.
Sure seems like it!@@miogi0072
Totally agree!
Yes. @@KANDR402
Her mother CREATED her
Sydneys first ever psychotic episode happens the moment her mother is going to find out that she has been lying to her friends,, sorority and family for over a month. And right in the midst of that psychotic episode she attempts to impersonate her mother that she just bludgeoned to death?No ..... Im going to hope for justice for Brenda.
Say that
Yes & person that's mentally insane their status will be consistent.
If Sydney imagined a break in or burglar, why didn't she ask the college staff on the phone for help... Instead of pretending to be Brenda?
Why did she tell her dad that everything was fine at home, then moments later talk about a break in?
I would have gone harder on testing her for malingering. This gal is a great liar.
The prosecution will have the " last word " to rebutt the psychologist.
Maybe that will sway the jury.
@@spirit13the1st6 I think technically both sides will have a final argument. I think it depends on the personalities in the jury. If someone has a hard time putting a young college kid away for life, I think the jury could be hung. Though I personally think she snapped and killed her mom out of selfishness and lies, it's up to the 12 people who sat there, when the Judge allowed Sydney to skip court due to her fragile state, I could sadly picture a scenario where one soft hearted juror can't write guilty. (Casey Anthony case is a prime example of when a juror just can't put away a young person)
She's actually a shitty liar, but no one had the balls (her father, the simp) to ever call her out on her BS.
So when she was confronted with her college failings she became mentally ill? Ridiculous! She was driving around and knew where she was and where she was going & how to stop her embarrassment by taking her mother out with several weapons!
She isn't a "kid" - and she wasn't one when she killed her mom.
Letting her off easy will no doubt pave the way for her believing that she can get away with anything and everything.
Whomever crosses her path in the future - and makes her the slightest bit upset, better watch out!
Yes, and then she could say she went off her meds
she is another cold killer that deserved Life No Parole or Death Penalty.
jesus get a grip
She might kill the granny!
@@tiffanyandco4156 that’s her own damn fault at this point! There’s showing support and allowing the murderer of your daughter into your home and staying there over night. That’s just stupid
@@kirbcutscals right! The whole family is crazy. She killed your daughter and had no signs of mental illness prior. Who says she won’t do it again.
agree 100%
It's insane how she might get off for murder. To argue that she had a random "most severe mental break I've ever seen" with no prior episodes of psychosis that just happens to exactly line up with a months long buildup of stress of her parents finding out is insulting.
By the way, she was released on a $25,000 bond. For FIRST DEGREE MURDER.
The jury are not going to believe um, um, um lying doctor paid big bucks by daddy. She murdered her mother in a rage, that's not insane. She had consciousness of guilt to lie. She will be found guilty
To go " psycho " like that.
It really wasn't that serious inhindsight she could have regrouped she was 18 or 19.
This seems like a build-up,an explosion.
$25,000 omg!!! What an insult
They do not get off! They go to a nasty psyche ward for the criminally insane! She is not going home after the verdict! She is guilty of murder!
It was $250,000
It’s hard to get over the fact that she had no prior episodes. She had a perfect childhood, loving family, nothing in her past indicate any mental illness.
The jury is going to see an overwhelming web of lies/deceit that she fabricated, combined with the text messages with her mother, & how she orchestrated the fake burglary as soon as she found out that the cops are on their way. That speaks volume to this case…..she’s under a lot of pressure, then snapped as she’s confronted with her shenanigans.
The " family claims" she had NO previous incidents or maybe they couldn't identify a mild incident from a major one.
Something is always wrong with anyone who does these heartless things.We have to determine PRE-MEDITATION.
She was right about the age where mental health issues BEGIN to show
The average age of onset tends to be in the late teens to the early 20s for men, and the late 20s to early 30s for women.
I agree
100 million %
Her friends at school did say she was having prior episodes before this in the trail actually
She was coherent enough to make up a story about her mothers murder moments after. Did she go upstairs to get a knife after the pan hit. Confused.
She was making it up on the phone with the college even as her mother lay dying at her feet.
Poor Brenda is being driven further and further into the background.
As if she never existed anyway
So true Rip brinda
As Sydney is the victim... terrible 😮
I'd imagine this last minute defence of schizophrenia is offensive to people who really suffer this serious mental health condition.
And remember, this will set precedence for any murder going forward.
There is no schizophrenia here.
Just grasping at straws 🙄.
For sure.
My brother snapped from schizophrenia at the age of 20 , no one seen it coming he has been hospitalized ever since and he is 53 now and yes it is real
@@melanysmith3023she's out on bail. So assuming she's so unbelievably sick, and it was a shock to everyone, and she's a danger... Why is your brother institutionalized but this gal gets to go to McDonald's for supper tonight if she wants? The staff who treated her made sure to point to her "retroactive" recounts of delusions and auditory hallucinations... They never witnessed her in any psychotic episode. Not once. Isn't that strange? She only escapes reality one time, to kill her mom, while simultaneously pretending to be her mom on the phone with the college... She doesn't beg them to get her help for the invisible burglar.
@tishwitch I hear you, my brother is terrified of the world I believe he has the paranoid type and he must be so medicated
LOCK HER UP!!
Didn't letecia stauch also say this she's proper little psychopath
This is a sick family and extended support system for the defendant. They’re all in major denial about her psychopathology which is driven by a disordered personality. She knows the difference between right and wrong. They’d better put her arse in jail
She is antisocial and convert narc (victim in her mind) her family are in deep denial and it's probably a shame based family dysfunction dynamics, generational trauma.
@@madisonohare4012 but they claim " NO FAMILIAR INCIDENTS "
JUST PERFECT INTERACTIONS.
Lies
Bobbles
Church people
Funny, how she was fine up until that moment. She never went after anyone else. I think those shrinks are full of it!
That’s not how schizophrenia works. Why don’t you do your research before you try throwing Shade
Go back watch the first psychologist. Listen to him spell it out. Unfortunately many immature people in chat that couldn’t be quiet about this highly educated man, with many years of service. All because he has a speech impediment. I listened and he clearly spelled it all out.
Yes, she was fine…. then she was…. and then she wasn’t. Ridiculous!
She would be remorseful after the murder if she had a psychotic episode, but instead she staged a break in to go with her lies. While pretending to be her mother on the phone she knew what she was doing, deceiving the person on the other end of the line. I’d say murder 2nd degree if I was a juror. It will be interesting to hear the prosecutor’s mental health experts.
She’s usually looks like she can’t believe she might be getting away with it and so tries to keep a straight face. 🙄
Her giggling through her manicured fingers when her former teacher was testifying for her was disgusting to me.
They likely have not told her yet she is going away to a dirty prison psyche ward for the criminally insane fir 25 years or more yet! She will throw a rage fit again! Spoiled child!
@@blitzmom2674. Oh my word ?! That’s chilling. I haven’t seen the entire trial.
@@Juke582 Yeah they better hide all the knives.
Is it true that if she goes to a psychiatric hospital that she can apply to get out every six months(until) -like prisoners who go up for parole?
I feel mostly sorry for her little brother, who have to follow the crazy family rules, to treat Sydney like a princess. She killed his mother! He didn't have her by his side when he graduated! But, oh dear, don't upset little Sydney.
This!!!! I haven’t stopped thinking about him and how he’s basically lost everything because of her
I can’t even imagine being the younger brother of this murderer and how hard that must be but couple that with an entire family of enablers telling you that what you know- right and wrong-does not apply to precious snowflake Sydney!! Infuriating!! He lost his mother and basically his entire family because they are all tied up in this fight for Sydney to NOT have consequences once again!
@@JustLikeJulia9 Infuriating, indeed.
How do you possibly know she was treated like a princess?
@@pennydiebolt5987 It's just a very common way of describing the treatment Sydney received after having killed Brenda. Hiding out on a horse farm, with her Grandparents, getting a lot of attention from the family, etc. (Everything I know through the testimony of the father, and grandmother.) Of course that doesn't really resemble how princesses are treated, or had been treated in the past. Even princesses have their own stories to tell. So, yeah....I don't think I will ever use that comparison again.
Wow...can't wait until monday then...I wanna know what the states expert says...bc I have a hard time believing her switching her insanity on and off.The staging of the scene, her mom's "I feel you're scamming me" and all her lies which were going to be revealed. She is very intelligent, they say, but isn't she very entitled as well and always getting her way?
Exactly!
The state have already rested
@@debbiejames3096 yes I know, but they have a rebuttal expert coming in on monday.
@@kabra72 Ah I see, sorry I didn't realise that. In that case I can't wait either!
Switching it on and off at convenient times isn’t something schizophrenics can do.
A moment of insanity is not an excuse for murder... guilty .... and she can work on her medication plan while she’s locked away... in her whole life prior to her narcissistic outburst, she was behaving “normal” all teens go through swings and stress, irregardless it’s MURDER !!! I’m appalled that she is still playing poor me and her family are swallowing it, obviously they are part of the problem, not imposing personal responsibility, and that’s what the thing is about ....
Exactly she is no kid. She was 20 and she whacked her mom with a heavy frying pan and finished her off with a knife. Horrific! how can u acquit and put this girl bk into society to possibly kill again. If acquittal is a possibility I advocate having her wear a gps monitoring for the next time she kills. Let’s b real this girl killed her mother in a moment of stress. Savage!
Yup and the experts r like poor kid. Kids can kill sir!!! We’ve seen it too many times
I agree 100th per cent
Well stated!
Notice the defense spoke today and no fake tears. I bet she's thinking I've got this.
@Suzie-he9ni Let’s hope the jury sees through her BS!
Praying for justice and a conviction 🙏
She is getting convicted for murder as they are not contesting it! They need to tell her she is going in handcuffs to a dirty prison psyche ward for the criminally insane for 30 years! She will throw a rage fit when the judge delivers the punch!
@@Juke582 Would be awful if he let her off for the reason that she will be on medication and living with her grandparents. That would be an outrage.
your prayer was answered, she was found GUILTY‼️
Even if she goes to a mental institution, that’s no picnic.
True! A dirty prison psyche ward for criminally insane! 25-35 years likely! Nobody has told her this yet obviously! 🤦♀️ she will throw a rage fit!
Probably worse in some respect.
@susanthurman2909 Is it true if she goes to a psychiatric hospital that she can apply every six months to be released? Like parole?
So the doctor thinks it’s abnormal that she had nightmares after stabbing her mother to death? These people are ALL completely insane.
She acted very cold and calculated after the murder. Smashed the window and said there was an intruder, pretended to be Brenda in the phone call. I think she should get prison. Give justice to Brenda who seems to have been an amazing human being.
And I wonder if anyone sees her actually take the medication. I would have asked her grandmother that! If the daughter knows she isn’t mentally ill she wouldn’t take it. She would hide it or get rid of it, I would think.
She does know right from wrong otherwise why was she reluctant for her mother to find out OTP that her daughter was expelled ??
And bash in the window right?
She covered it up by creating a “robbery”. That’s not insanity, that’s manipulation.
@@johnqpublic5350 exactly!! That BTCH is GUILTY
💯🎯
The family is putting their egos before that poor woman’s life.
They don’t want to admit they raised such a person.
None of them speaking for the brutally murdered mother.
I’m prepared to be disappointed in the verdict and/or sentencing
My sibling is schizophrenic….they hear voices…if the voices says kill, they will sometimes act on it. The meds give them ticks; their tongue can pop out, they may look like they have turrets syndrome and they will stop taking it. It’s very hard to find one that will work.
She didn’t say a voice told her to kill her mother. I don’t believe her insanity defence.
Couldn’t it be argued that any murder requires some type of psychotic episode. Seems the message was communicated to stop the fake crying, childish ear plugging, and phoney nose congestion. It was very poorly performed. That poor mother…
Who cares if she’s crazy everyone that murder someone is crazy stick her, but behind bars for the rest of her life
CORRECT
Although the experts seemed credible, i think the jury will convict.
You can “buy” these so called experts all day!
It’s a sure conviction as they are not contesting the murder! Only the mental illness excuse. She will go away to a dirty prison psyche ward for the criminally insane for 25-35 years I am sure!
@@lindakyle3129I believe she is bipolar though with schitzotypal disorder! It makes sense. Still guilty of murder though as not co testing that part. Only her sentence is being defended really! It’s gonna be a dirty prison psyche ward of criminally insane idiots 25-35 years I think!
I agree with the gentleman at the end of the podcast. I have worked with mentally ill people, and they can be fine and not fine. So difficult and hard to understand when your brain function normally. That Grace needs to be given to those brains do not function normally.
Blah Blah.
In that case it means she is extremely dangerous for the community
Prison is full of mentally ill people. She knew right from wrong and that is the test. 🤷♀️
she can get that grace in prison.
grace? look at these people. There are tons of comments that even go as far as to say she should be put to death at the age of 23. people are so insanely ignorant until something personal happens to them. there is no level-headed look at the entire picture. people are as animalistic in these comments as the accused is.
Would of been nice if court tv streamed this in full on you tube
Evil 😈 Demon who murdered her mother needs to be found guilty and not mentally ill!! Life in prison please jury this 🙏 person is dangerous to society.
I have worked in the mental health field for more than 14 years. Sydney is NOT schizo anything, or should claim the insanity plea. It is clear she was pissed and did this in a fit of rage. That is all. Watching her in this trial, she is not displaying any kind of symptoms that shows her to be mentally ill. If she were medicated, she would not be as alert as she appears. If you are versed in the severity of mental illness, you can actually see it in the eyes and they would appear to have a dark look to them when they are having increase in symptoms. Jail is what she deserves.
I'm surprised working in the mental health field you don't have more compassion and are not more knowledgeable about the "gray" areas of mental disease
A stressor like college would bring on the first symptoms. Especially with women. Men sometime earlier like the age of puberty but it’s the stressor that brings out the symptoms.
So true. Very sad how this country has continued to ignore mental illness and it’s devastating effects on those who suffer as well as society at large. But every one will wear a ribbon, have fundraisers, etc., for every other ailment on the planet.
@@ScarlettRose7221@ScarlettRose7221 Yes. Just like the poor Son of Sam killer, David Berkowitz. He only killed because a dog told him to. He should never have been convicted. He's find when on medication. If he kills someone every so often, it's not his fault, it's his mental illness.
The same with Ted Bundy. Why are all these innocent people being convicted, or even executed? It's their mental illness, it's not their fault. They should all be out getting treatment and living a free life.
Snort. Narcissistic rage is what it was.
@ScarlettRosd7221. Perfectly said! Thank you I'm not alone.
Guilty as hell, I hope not 1 of the jury fall for any of this expert bull that her family has paid for! Let her do her time for the crime that she has committed in!!
Issues with schizophrenia can begin in your 20s or later in life especially in response to a high stress situation. I get the defense using it as their Hail Mary. It does not however switch like a lightbulb. A person usually shows some signs of abnormality or distress before a breakdown. Besides being places she shouldn’t, nobody said she was being strange or expressing any issues or anything. She was great let everyone else tell it. Even when confronted on several occasions to leave campus and her friends and sisters finding out. So ONLY when her mom, who already had a hunch, was on the phone with the school did she snap? When did her “psychosis” end? Any other instances since? She’s arrested on these charges and in court. Pretty high stress. I hope they don’t let her get away with this
She is pleading guilty to the murder so she will likely go to a dirty prison psyche ward for 25-35 years for the criminally insane! She will throw a rage fit when judge delivers last punch!
I have a friend who is schizophrenic, he was diagnosed in his early teens. He went off his meds and there was no warning, a switch just went off. He started to message me the weirdest things.
The first psychologist said some symptoms up to 3 months ahead. Has severe depression, not socializing. Significant changes in her personality.asked multiple times to leave the dorm, but was living in her own world. Then a hotel, living n her car. Go back and watch.
I don't trust her she knew what she was doing . She should get life .
I don't get why in America when someone murder they are always under medication
But how did she snap and kill her mother then get on the phone with her college and pretend she was her mother and was so quick to tell police when they got there that someone broke into the house??
Because she’s not mentally ill
I really really hope that they see through her BS mental health excuse
And can we commend her on that little private school girl outfit she chose to wear today
So disappointing that there was not a more aggressive cross examination of the defense mental health experts. So many issues they could have addressed. This case is an insult to people who truly suffer from a severe mental illness. It seems like the prosecution is giving up?
They are bringing in their own Experts to show she is wad not Insane.
@@Fergie66813 oh excellent! I'm looking forward to rhat! 🙂
@@JimB16 Me too. Hoping they would bring in their own experts to dispel her schizo myth. She just had herself a big old tantrum.
Why are these Professionals calling Brenda's death an (Incident) when they know that her daughter Sydney murdered her???
Thank you to Bob Motta. I've had a friend with Schizophrenia and have met others who had it. Sometimes you're just talking and don't know they have it but they say something that you might take for a metaphor "I remember when I was waiting to be born and asked Jesus..." and then you find out that they believe that was real experience... you can't always tell they are developing it... one friend shot himself because he was at dinner with his family and the voices told him to kill his sister's baby... a lot of people including his sister didn't know he had schizophrenia... the time that Sydney said she couldn't see the numbers strikes me as very telling... thank you Mr Motta for a kind and heartfelt assessment of the people involved. Schizophrenia is a life sentence. My heart aches for this family.
I don't even know why they even charge this poor girl, it is terrible and disturbing. Trying to put a sick girl in jail when she wasn't responsible. The prosecution knows this, she had no idea she did this and yet, they didn't drop the charges
My thoughts are for Sydney and her family tomorrow at the trial. Again, from what I heard so far, her case is typical presentation for schizophrenia. The early onset, previous odd incidents, disorganised actions and thoughts during the year before murder (as in not being able to manage her grades, accommodation, etc), deterioration of mental health and denial (or not awareness) that something is not right . In most cases people experiencing schizophrenia are wanting to do what is expected from them and appear to be people pleasers and obedient children prior to the onset. Additionally, many people are diagnosed once some sort of incident happen. And for those saying that she knows right from wrong, that is correct for schizophrenics too for the majority of time. However when in psychosis then all is different. For some it can last an hour and for some it can last weeks. Some people come to a point where they are not able to recover from psychosis to previous state for the rest of their lives, and that usually happens when they do not receive support, no medication, when theres comorbidity, if they are taking drugs... Otherwise many people experiencing schizophrenia are intelligent, have emotions and can experience life as other people. It saddens me to see how many people do not understand mental illness. If two mental health professional's opinion is that she is not malingering, combining with what we hear and see, I tend to agree with them.
I worked with the victim at the hospital; schizophrenia takes no prisoners. This was such a nice family.
She's a cold blooded killer.
Thank you for understanding and being educated about mental illness. I am disgusted by people's comments that she is narcissist/spoiled/manipulative...as if she has a character flaw not a severe onset of Schizophrenia. I'm sickened that she will spend time in prison w minimal mental health care. I'm appalled the jury believes a clinic psychologist vs 4 experts in the field who worked in mental health facilities and with people who were actually in psychosis. They did standardized best practice testing for malingering.
It just goes to show you how ignorant our society and the court system is regarding mental disease.
@@pennydiebolt5987 I see. Those would be my concerns too. I am saddened to see that and hope things will change and Sydney and family will have opportunity to heal. I comment here and on Dr. G. Explains channel if you are following this case. I made additional comment on his live at 22/8
Not a doctor but I have a hard time believing that she is suddenly schizophrenic. She lied about a break-in. She also pretended to be her mom on the phone and broke a window. If I was on the jury, these are the facts that I would be thinking about. 🤷🏼♀️
Justice for the mother
I know some real schizophrenics. I aint seeing it or hearing it.
I AM however seeing a young person who was unprepared for failing school, losing her funding, basically getting tossed out of her social group by way of having to leave college and THEN having to go and admit it to the family. Never faced with such an adult situation, it would make one act totally irrationally and out of character.
I just don’t think she is mentally ill. My aunt suffered from schizophrenia and let me tell you… she was the nicest, sweetest person ever. She never hurt anyone. When she had episodes, she went to the hospital, and she came back the same person. While I was asleep, she left home, ended up naked running on the freeway. She had a mental break, but she never harmed anyone. If she had a mental break, she wouldn’t have done everything she did to cover it up. That is not mental illness. That is consciousness of guilt. She lied, went out of the way to cover her lies up.
Her poor Mom!
She has PTSD from something she caused. 🤦♂️ Not insane.
She’s not a kid 😮Justice for Brenda 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I saw the testimony of the grandmother and I knew then that she flat out murdered her mother. Nothing was wrong with her. This mess is afterthought to try and stay out of jail. She has zero remorse. And that grandmother knows the truth.
The family sure doesn’t have any feelings for the poor murdered mother….Weirdos.
“Kid?!” She’s not a child! From my medical/psychiatric perspective, she demonstrated excellent executive functioning prior and post crime. Somebody who is schizophrenic doesn’t say that they grab the knife and it’s somebody else broke into the house. They talk about command, hallucinations and other psychotic behaviors are demonstrated. she is guilty of murdering her mother she is not insane in my opinion
Spot on!
There was an case the son murder both parents dismembered them all because they were about to learn he was no longer in college he just wanted to play video games
Chandler Halderson in Wisconsin.
She’s not a kid
Why hasnt courttv covered this case in full? Im so disappointed bc i wanted to see it and I live in Ohio... but Im 3 hours away. It felt like you guys had cameras some days and not others, some were full days and others were just clips here and there. I wish it had been like any other trial you cover.
Court tv always jumps around too much trying to cover too many trials. I feel the same way about the Amie Harwick trial. The “Law and Crime” channel shows more than court tv.
But how did NO ONE pick up on any issues? Family, friends no one thought she was off certainly not enough to think serious mental illness such as schizophrenia
People are good at masking. I'm almost 40 and was just diagnosed with autism. No one saw it. You know why? Because I hid a lot and tried to blend in with my peers.
Crazy how They are going to try to portray this as a Mental Illness thing. She knew what she was doing . She finally got caught in her ways. Your actions have consequences!
Show me the actual testimony, I don't wanna hear random reporters talking about the testimony
The coverage of this trial has been horrible. Why wasn’t it live stream and not just clips
looks like this is clearly a divided online jury. Will be interesting what the real jury decides.
If she gets off what precedence does that set? Makes it easy for ppl to off someone.
She broke the widow to blame it on a intruder, she tried to pass herself as her mother over the phone to her school superiors, she told the police her mother told her to get out that an intruder had broken in. That's all planned. Thought out. That's not a schizophrenic episode, or schizophrenia. You just don't develop schizophrenia out of the blue. By the time you get to college you would have had several episodes needing intervention.
This was a spoiled, angry child lashing out because she had not gotten her way and was failing in school because of partying rather than studying.
At the moment her mother would find out about her lies she kills her. LOL this trial.
But that doesn’t make sense. The parents have always been supportive. They wouldn’t have beaten her or thrown her out. I do not believe for a minute she killed her mom over lies. Everyone has testified she and her mom were best friends. They talked like best friends. I truly believe she developed schizophrenia. There are any case studies that state it starts in the late teens early 20’s.
@@cindylewis7072 On the second and i mean second that her biggest lie, disappointment, failure and cover up would have been told to her mom, she killed her. And you just have thrown that whole thing out.
@@davidcalhoun3235 I still don’t believe it. I understand either pressuring yourself to do your absolute best then failing , that’s a lot. She was a great student. Etc etc. I don’t see her “intentionally “ or planning to kill her mom because she found out her lies. It doesn’t make sense ..but like I said I have seen studies/shows that say it hits at teenage to early 20s , yes there’s alot data on that. Especially if the teacher said age was having a hard time seeing numbers.
My best friends brother was smart popular calm collected. until 18.
Then schizophrenia hit him. He struggled with hearing voices ,not seeing things as they actually were, aggression , etc etc
He thought his mom was some evil thing. But She truly wasn’t. He couldn’t deal with it all. He trusted no one. He ended up guarded and Lied a lot. Really makes me think of this lady.
I really pray for her help. Not sure what type of sentence she should get since it all hit suddenly, I think she needs time in a mental hospital but to put her away in a prison , being schizophrenic, imo not the thing to do. But we will see. Have a good day.
You’re not helping her by letting her go. She killed her mother, she is so manipulative! She can get the help she needs in prison.
She had a "hissy fit" that went too far, but she's not crazy !
I just do not understand what is going around in this trial 😱😭 so a mother had no value as a being and this is Schizophrenia 😱 no no no
Didn't the expert for the prosecutor prescribe psych meds for Sydney? And, he did so with the belief that Sydney is faking it? I would think that is not a medically ethical thing to do...
All I can say is…. JOEL GUY -chandler -halderdon- -Ashton -Sachs- were all confronted by parents about dropping out of school and all were unalived by the kids and the kids attempted to lie and cover it up. Give me a break. Idc how many family members support her the support is too late bc if she was mental I’ll they should’ve seeked her help and not ignored it. Before she took a life.
All of the aforementioned murderers are around the same age and grew up with the internet. Real life is hard but they are used to clcking a button for an answer and don't have real time thought processes and real life experience to actually and not virtually live life with it's many challenges. It doesn't help that in these situations their parents coddled them up until the point they snapped when faced with reality!
It is very sad she didnt get help sooner, my daughter had a major depressive episode, didnt attend classes & failed University. It was 6 months before anyone close to her found out, including us. She was a top performing student going into University, no one in that Uni alerted anyone about her behaviour, nobody noticed the drastic change & we had NO idea. It is possible for them to appear completely normal BUT why didnt the student care notice ??
But she didn't KILL anyone.
@@DovaMati she didnt have severe mental illness like Schizophrenia, just demonstrating how our kids can slip between the cracks when they leave school& go off to college or university
Maybe the laws regarding student privacy should be changed since it is well documented the frontal cortex isn't fully mature until mid 20s. That way parents could be alerted well in advance.
@@pennydiebolt5987 good point
Oh..... there was a defense??
BUT…..Sydney knew right away to lie + try to cover up what she did to her Mom?? She faked a break in etc the 1st minute she did this! How could she NOT know how wrong it was????
Patients who’ve not murdered anyone can spend months or years in psych wards and nine days will do it? Going off her meds is par for the course in cases like this - they do it secretly - and if her grandparents pay the ultimate price, the family will have put them in harm’s way with eyes open. 🙁
She isn’t schizophrenic. She might not even be taking the drugs. Who sees her take them. She’s in her happy place on a ranch or a farm for now. She’ll get off with just being in the custody of her grandparents and promising to take her pills. She’ll be fine until she takes another tantrum/fit of rage.
Having had the experience to work with those who have a mental illness… Give me a greater understanding of the challenges of navigating through life.
Let’s take a moment to pity this woman (not girl) who has to deal with nightmares after killing her mother in the most brutal way. If it would not be known, that the mother is the victim here, you would not recognize it in this trial. The victim is obviously the killer here. Maybe we should discuss victim compensation for her as well.
Have mercy on an half orphan!
Don’t forget her struggles with grades while in college and not being allowed anymore ski trips with her sorority sisters. That will have a huge effect on her life! Maybe we could also get her some compensation from the university for being the precursor to all this mess in the first place. 🙄
Lol
Lets nit forget the puppy dog she needed in court
Same 😮
Where can we we the trial?.. in full
Court tv website
Chandler Halderson 2.0
I wonder when her dad said I'm going to let your mom deal with you did he know he was signing his wife death wish😢😢
Is there any way to watch the expert testimony that was given today?
Court tv website only
@@Gabriel-hf1yy thanks!
Leticia Stauch wanna be 👿
So, if I kill a parent, having never had a mental health condition nor an issue with family and or education... I can just kill and then post tense claim a mental condition or defective mental issue and get away murder? Seems like other defendants will have a 'avenue' or 'route' out of Justice by claiming a mental illness. This defendant lied, in the seconds after killing her mother, she claimed another person, did the crime, she faked being her mother, Brenda, moments after killing her on her mothers phone, she had nightmares and stress following the murder... Of course she does, she killed her mother. I am at a loss, the family and friends supporting her as a murder, that is their choice, in doing so...let them be supportive...still has nothing to do with the fact that the defendant killed her mother to keep from the consequences of failing out of college in the first semester after High School. Nuts.
The point of her trying to cover it up shows that it was not a psychotic episode I hope they don’t fall for this girls acting she may have some issues but she know what she did and why she did it
Does the dad gain from his daughter getting off. Does life insurance pay out if a family member is the killer? Something is off here. Dad is supporting her but did l notice she walks behind him. He's not walking with her any of the times I've seen them going to court.
She must of read the text from comments about her hair looking like a rats nest.cause today it looks like she put a brush to it.
It's strange that when Sydney's bond was posted, she didn't want to speak to any family members, just her attorney! SMH
@marcellanorfleet4438 Seems right on brand for an entitled brat!
I'm yelling "Timber"
if you’re insane you don’t come up with this story that requires cognitive thought! She knew exactly what she was doing! Guilty
Just because somebody is psychotic does not mean they are insane! Insanity is a legal term, very few criminals at while insane.
I’ll be very surprised if they don’t convict her.
She is already guilty of the murder not being contested! It’s just insanity challenged that will affect the sentence! It doesn’t let them go free! She is going to a dirty psyche ward for criminally insane! Some 25-36 years!
Amazing the backflips some people will do not to allow their family member to be called, Evil, Thug or Criminal.
Yeah, the sports psychologist, the defense hired didn’t believe she was faking 😂
She stabbed her mother for each year of her life that she raised her. Think about that.