Montgomery’s lawyers gave her the narrowest of defenses at trial. Duchardt came up with a peculiar legal argument - that she suffered from a rare mental illness called pseudocyesis which induced the delusion in her that Stinnett’s baby was her own.The theory didn’t fit the facts, and the jury didn’t buy it. Having found Montgomery guilty, they were also unimpressed by the limited mitigating evidence that was presented to them during the sentencing phase of the trial. The defense lawyers cited some evidence of physical abuse, called a few woefully prepared witnesses, and that was about it. The prosecutors lampooned the thinly argued plea to spare her execution the “abuse excuse”. And so Montgomery duly came to be condemned to death on 26 October 2007.
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Montgomery’s lawyers gave her the narrowest of defenses at trial. Duchardt came up with a peculiar legal argument - that she suffered from a rare mental illness called pseudocyesis which induced the delusion in her that Stinnett’s baby was her own.The theory didn’t fit the facts, and the jury didn’t buy it. Having found Montgomery guilty, they were also unimpressed by the limited mitigating evidence that was presented to them during the sentencing phase of the trial. The defense lawyers cited some evidence of physical abuse, called a few woefully prepared witnesses, and that was about it. The prosecutors lampooned the thinly argued plea to spare her execution the “abuse excuse”.
And so Montgomery duly came to be condemned to death on 26 October 2007.