Was Letecia Stauch psychotic or strategic? Jury begins deliberations in killing of 11-year-old Gannon Stauch

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An El Paso County jury is deciding whether a woman who killed her 11-year-old stepson was sane when she stabbed and shot the child or suffered a mental break so extreme that she cannot be held legally responsible for her actions.

Letecia Stauch’s defense attorney did not dispute that the mother and former special education teacher killed her stepson, Gannon Stauch, but said she suffered a mental break before she killed him and has disassociated since the Jan. 27, 2020, killing.

“It was her,” Josh Tolini, Stauch’s defense attorney, said during closing arguments. “But she was not in her right mind when she did it.”

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