Experts Say Susan Smith Is Able to Stand Trial
State experts concluded that Susan Smith is competent to stand trial even though she suffers from a mental disability that could have played a role in the drownings of her two young sons, a newspaper reported Thursday.
An evaluation by the state Department of Mental Health says Smith’s disability includes severe depression, but she is not insane, the (Columbia) State quoted unidentified sources as saying.
Police say Smith, 23, confessed to driving her car into a lake with her two sons strapped into their car seats last October. The paper’s account did not indicate whether mental health experts had reached a conclusion on her sanity at the time of the killings.
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