Moment Carly Gregg, 15, SMILES as she learns her sentence after being found guilty of shooting her mom in Mississippi By Brittany Chain For Dailymail.Com Published: 20:17 BST, 20 September 2024 | Updated: 20:49 BST, 20 September 2024 e-mail 35 View comments Carly Gregg has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole just 30 minutes after she was found guilty of murdering her mom and trying to kill her stepdad. The 15-year-old sobbed as the guilty verdict was delivered by the jury on Friday afternoon, just two hours after they broke for deliberation.
But by the time she returned to the court room to hear her sentence, a smile was plastered all over her face again. She will serve two life sentences concurrently for the charges of murder and attempted murder, as well as 10 years for tampering with evidence in the case. The final charge relates to a decision Gregg made to tear a CCTV camera down from her kitchen and hide it in the refrigerator after shooting her mom, Ashley, dead in the home on March 19.
Carly Gregg has been sentenced to two counts of life in prison By the time she returned to the court room to hear her sentence, a smile was plastered all over her face again Her legal team unsuccessfully argued she was so mentally unwell at the time of the crime that she should be found not guilty due to insanity. They earlier rejected a 40-year plea deal offered by Mississippi state prosecutors. The jury deliberated for just 30 minutes on whether she shoul.