Teen who bludgeoned and stabbed mother to death gets conviction thrown out

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True Crime News

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🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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This Week on True Crime News The Podcast: A woman’s sanity remains in question after her conviction for the brutal murder of her mother. While jurors found Sydney Powell guilty of the beating and fatal stabbing of her mom, Brenda Powell, an appeals court overturned the verdict, ruling that Sydney’s right to a fair trial was violated in the presentation of her insanity defense. Dr. Gail Saltz joins host Ana Garcia. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.3	Hello and welcome to True Crime News, the podcast covering high profile and under the radar cases from across the country every week.
0:46.3	I'm your host, Anna Garcia. Our case this week, a young woman's sanity remains central to her mother's murder.
0:53.3	A jury recently found that the 24-year-old knew
0:56.4	exactly what she was doing when she hit her mother with a cast-iron skillet and then she
1:01.2	stabbed her 30 times. The motive? The daughter had been hiding a huge secret from her parents
1:07.5	that she had been kicked out of college. The daughter flew into a rage when she
1:12.1	overheard her mother talking to school administrators on the phone, say prosecutors. The defense
1:17.7	insisted that the college student was not in her right mind. And now an appellate court has thrown out
1:24.5	the daughter's conviction saying the defense was denied an opportunity to bring
1:28.7	in additional experts during the trial. The murdered woman's family, who is also the family of
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