Molly Martens Corbett
I have discussed a lot of cases that involve mental illness lately. Then again I do not think that is all that unusual in the types of cases that I generally blog about. I think most of us would agree that to commit most of the crimes that I discuss here one would not be the typical “normal” person. The difference here is that no one on either side brought it up. Whether that is because cases that use mental illness as a defense are not very successful is unclear. The other issue could be that while Molly Martens Corbett sat in one defense chair, her father sat in another. Their defense attorney's almost had to work together to come up with what they believed to be a believable story. It would be difficult to say when there was ample evidence that they were both involved in the murder of Molly's husband, Jason, that one of them was mentally ill while the other was not. Molly Martens and Jason Corbett met in 2008 when Molly traveled to Ireland from Tenness...