OPINION
BILL VANCE, Justice.
Erica Diana Najar was accused of "intentionally or knowingly" causing serious bodily injury to a toddler by scalding her, a first-degree felony. Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 22.04(a), (e) (Vernon Supp.2002). Najar was near her eighteenth birthday at the time of the crime. She pled the "insanity" defense. Id. § 8.01 (Vernon 1994). A jury convicted her of a lesser-included offense: "reckless" injury to the minor, a seconddegree...
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