Judge denies babyface teen killer Carly Greggs bid for new trial

Convicted 15-year-old murderer Carly Gregg’s motion for a new trial was denied by a Mississippi judge on Monday.Gregg was convicted of shooting and killing her mother, Ashley Smylie, 40, in cold blood and was sentenced to life in prison without parole back in September by a Rankin County, Miss.

jury.Lawyers for the teen sought a new trial based on evidence revealed in an interview Carly’s biological father gave to local news station WLBT.In that interview, released just days after the conviction, Carly’s father said his daughter had auditory hallucinations when she was a child and engaged in equine therapy.“On Wednesday, September 26th, 2024, a reporter for Fox 40/WLBT informed defense counsel that Kevin Gregg, Carly’s biological father had given an interview, part of which would be aired later that night,” the defense motion read, “In an unaired portion of his interview, Kevin Gregg disclosed that Carly was placed in equestrian therapy as a young child due to experiencing auditory hallucinations.”Kevin Gregg also said, “That girl knew right from wrong.That girl is not insane, that was a very dumb defense if you ask me.

But I wasn’t involved.Nobody ever called me.” Judge Dewey Arthur said in a decision Monday that no information revealed in that interview warranted a new trial.“This Court specifically finds that no new and material [sic] has been discovered which probably would produce a different result at trial and, by reasonable diligence, this evidence could not have been discovered sooner,” Judge Arthur wrote in his decision, according to Law&Crime.

“The Court reviewed the statements and finds these statements would not have probably produced a different result at trial.”Chilling video from inside the Mississippi home shows the 15-year-old just moments after shooting her mother in the face.In that footage, Gregg can be seen walking into the kitchen as her mother laid dead with a bullet wound to her face.She then is seen cas...