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Like most "insanity" defenses, its also so rarely able to be actually used successfully in court because if you show even the slightest hint of self-preservation or attempting to protect yourself, you prove you aren't insane enough. The only times it is successful is on people who are clearly not even in our reality and make no attempts to really hide it, like Ed Gein.
So its only being accepted as a legal defense here because its woman.
A lot of legal precedent winds up getting based on "OH it's a woman who brought this case," and then suddenly everything else gets thrown out from the old rules.
An important lesson everyone can learn from "true crime" cases.
Women can and will testify against you for things they did just to get out of any legal trouble. And the courts will accept that, even if you are completely innocent her testimony will be treated as gospel.
possible but the article just hasnt enough info about what else happened
This image alone has enough info. She has enough of her mind about her to hide her face, meaning she lacks any insanity.
You don't recover from a "psychotic break" anywhere near that quickly, if at all. Drug induced or not, your mind doesn't ever snap back from such a degeneration.
If you get caught and get meds against that the heavy sympthoms can vanish in less than 1 day. You maybe still have some smaller issues but where you have mostly control over yourself. Also its not necceassary the case that you lose full control the whole time and just a few minutes to an hour, if something triggers some delusions and you then go "crazy". But it depends how that psychotic break triggered some drugs need longer to get out of the body. A psychotic break which comes without drugs and maybe because of a bloodvessel in the brain not working right can be shorter if the bloodvessel is to subside.
And with that level of meds, you'll be too zonked out to be able to focus on something as smart as hiding your face. Anti-psychotics are infamous for zombifying people, its why even the deepest schizos quit them even while they are working.
Regardless, the point isn't that she didn't experience some amount of psychosis (which I still doubt), its that she has absolutely no legal standing to use it as a defense as she is clearly either not psychotic or has returned to normal function enough to be legally required to turn herself in. Her attempting to hide her face tells me she absolutely did try to avoid being associated with the event and is capable of being ashamed of it at the least, which is the biggest reason all insanity type defenses fall apart.
So even if I believe her, and you, at your word about how it went down she still has no legs to stand on regarding her defense other than "am woman."