[bpodgursky]

It would be incredibly dark as a legal defense, but given her sorta sociopathy, I wonder if she has calculated that being married and having a child before sentencing would make the judge or jury give a more lenient sentence.

Tbh, even knowing that it's a 100% calculated move, I would personally as a juror have a much harder time sentencing a woman with a young child to significant prison time.

[Asparagirl]

This is also a plot point in the Broadway musical (and its movie adaptation) “Chicago”. It even gets a great song, full of double entendres, “My Baby and Me”.