Lawyers for a nurse who crashed her car and killed six people say she was experiencing a mental health crisis.
Police charged Nicole Linton with six counts of murder after she crashed her car at 130 mph at an intersection.
She doesn't remember the events that led to her collision, according to a doctor.
Lawyers for a California woman charged with six counts of murder after a fiery car crash say she was having a mental health crisis since she became a nurse.
According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, Nicole Linton was driving at 90 mph when she crashed into several cars.
She floored the gas pedal for at least 5 seconds before she crashed, going from 122 mph to 130 mph.
A fetus was inside a pregnant woman who was killed in the crash. There were six counts of murder and five counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligention.
A medical professional who examined her after the crash said she had no recollection of what happened.
She had an "apparent lapse of consciousness" after lying on the pavement and seeing her car on fire.
According to her attorneys, she has been having mental health crises for a long time. She had a mental health breakdown while she was a student at the University of Texas in Houston.
Her sister said that the stress was too much for her to handle.
The prosecutors said that she had been stressed out due to her job and had not slept in days leading up to the crash.
She told her family that she had been possessed by her grandma. Defense attorneys said she was diagnosed with a mental illness.
Prosecutors argued that she was conscious and deliberate in her driving, despite the fact that she had been experiencing a mental health crisis.
The performance flies in the face of the idea that she was unconscious.
He has remained in jail since the crash.
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