UNDER THE LAW HOMICIDE IS AUTOMATICALLY TREATED AS AN ADULT CRIME CLAIRE MILLER WAS 14 WHEN SHE WAS CHARGED WITH STABBING HER SISTER TO DEATH IN COURT TODAY THE TESTIMONY INCREDIBLY EMOTIONAL CLAIRE MILLER’S PARENTS TESTIFIED. HER MOTHER WAS CHOKING BACK TEARS AS SHE DESCRIBED CHANGES. SHE SAW AND HER DAUGHTER AND TOLD THE COURT. SHE DIDN’T WANT TO LOSE ANOTHER CHILD. THE DEPENDS IS ASKING A JUDGE TO TRY CLAIRE MILLER NOW 16 AS A JUVENILE. SHE WAS AT THE HEARING. SHE ADMITTED TO STABBING HER 19 YEAR OLD SISTER HELEN TO DEATH, FEBRUARY 22ND, 2021. THEY FOUND HER COVERED IN BLOOD OUTSIDE THE FAMILY HOME. HELEN HAD CEREBRAL PALSY AND WAS WHEELCHAIR BOUND CHOKING BACK TEARS, MARIE MILLER TOLD THE COURT QUOTE. WE LOVE BOTH OF THEM. I KNOW CLAIRE DID NOT MEAN TO DO THIS. WE LOST HELEN AND WE DON’T WANT TO LOSE CLAIRE TOO. WE DON’T WANT HER TO BE PUNISHED NOT GET HELP AND BE PUT AWAY FOR A LONG PERIOD FOR SOMETHING THAT WAS OUT OF HER CONTROL. WE CAN’T LOSE HER TOO. MARIE TALKED ABOUT CLAIRE HAD CHANGED GOING FROM A HAPPY CHILD AN EXCELLENT STUDENT WHO WON A CITIZENSHIP AWARD TO ONE FILLED WITH ANXIETY WHO COMMITTED SELF-MUTILATION BY CUTTING HER LEGS, BUT MARIE SAYS CLAIRE CARED FOR HER OLDER SISTER SAYING HELEN HAD TIME. SHE WAS IN PAIN CLAIRE DID ALL SHE COULD TO HELP HELEN FEEL BETTER. THE DEFENSE CALLED TWO PSYCHOLOGISTS WHO TESTIFIED CLAIRE SUFFERED FROM DEPRESSION ANXIETY DISORDER AND PSYCHOSIS AND ECLAIR TOLD THEM SHE SUFFERED HALLUCINATIONS VOICES THE LETTER TO TRY AND SLASH HER OWN THROAT THE NIGHT HER SISTER. DIED BUT PROSECUTORS BROUGHT UP TEXT MESSAGES INDICATING CLAIRE HAD SOUGHT TO HARM OTHERS. AND AN ADVANCED WITNESSES THE PSYCHOLOGIST TESTIFIED THEY BELIEVED THE CLAIRE MILLER CAN BE REHABILITATED THE DEFENSE PLANS TO CALL STAFF FROM LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL TOMORROW WHILE PROSECUTORS PLAN TO CALL THEIR OWN DOCTORS TO TESTIFY ABOUT THE STATE OF CLAIRE MILLER’S MENTAL HEALTH NOW, SHE IS CURRENTLY A PRISONER AT THE STATE WOMEN’S CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTE IN MUNCIE, PENNSYLVA