Lauren Cassimatis

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471 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 28 Jun

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Australian True Crime · The Only Australian Woman Sentenced to Life Without Parole · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

So we're not there to...

pretty much pose an alternative case theory or at least we're not there to convince the jury of, no, this is actually what happened.

We're there to convince the jury that you cannot be satisfied that the prosecution's theory is the correct one, that, you know, you have to have some doubt there.

So I don't think often the trial is the best way...

let alone a plea, to get all the answers for a victim.

The incentive in pleading guilty for an accused person is that discount.

I mean, sometimes in her case, if she'd known she was never going to get a discount, she would have run the trial.

So there's an incentive there at least to spare everyone of a trial.

Yeah, the sentence.

So she wanted a parole term.

So she got life without parole.

Basically, her team said that there wasn't enough weight placed on the fact that she did plead guilty and that all her...

mental health challenges.

That would have been if they ran a mental impairment defense.

So they didn't do that.

But yeah, if she had been found guilty by, sorry, not guilty by way of mental impairment, that means they end up being hospitalized for a significant time.

However, with accused people that get sentenced to jail, they are assessed in jail and often put in a psych facility there.

So I'm not sure if she's there now.

But I did read, however, that she's in mainstream prison at the moment as a mentor.

Right.

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