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

The defense lawyer for 15-year-old Carly Gregg says their customer deserves a caller proceedings because 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 charismatic Kathryn Newman said Gregg had shown "zero remorse."

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

On nan first and 2nd counts, Gregg was sentenced to life successful prison. On nan 3rd count, she received 10 years.

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

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

Now, Gregg's defense said that nan 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 test of unspecified schizophrenic disorder and is apt to lead to a different consequence astatine a caller trial," nan defense said. "As such, Carly is entitled to a caller trial."

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The defense based on that nan "undisputed evidence" of nan circumstances starring up to Gregg's action should consequence successful a mistrial.

"The undisputed grounds astatine proceedings of Carly’s intelligence illness, loving narration pinch her mother and stepfather, absence of anterior criminal charges, absence of anterior violence, bully schoolhouse record, maternal family support, organization support, nan victim’s grounds that Carly was not successful her correct mind and did not admit him astatine nan clip of nan offense, and nan State’s admittance to an absence of motive to perpetrate nan alleged crimes do not support nan verdict aliases condemnation successful this case," nan defense wrote.

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"Therefore, this matter calls for a caller trial, aliases successful nan alternative, a judgement notwithstanding nan verdict," they said.

The footage showed Carly Gregg moments aft she allegedly opened occurrence and killed her mother 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 different consequence astatine proceedings and, by reasonable diligence, this grounds could not person been discovered sooner," Arthur wrote.

"The Court reviewed nan statements and finds these statements would not person astir apt produced a different consequence astatine trial," he said.