May 30: The sleepover.
May 31: The stabbing.
June 2: Morgan and Anissa appear in court and are charged as adults.
June 16: Morgan’s defense team submits motion arguing that adult prosecution infringes on Morgan’s Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment.
July 2: Anissa is put on suicide watch.
August 22: Bohren finds Morgan incompetent to stand trial and remands her to Winnebago until restored to competency.
October 22: Doctors at Winnebago diagnose Morgan with schizophrenia.
November 7: Doctors at Winnebago find Morgan competent to stand trial.
November 12: Bohren rules that Morgan is competent to stand trial.
December: Morgan returns to Washington County Jail.
February: Morgan’s and Anissa’s defense teams submit motions for the charge to be reduced from first- to second-degree attempted homicide.
March: Bohren denies motions for the charge to be reduced and retains jurisdiction of the girls in adult court.
April: Bohren denies motions to reduce Morgan’s and Anissa’s bail so that they might await trial at home.
May 26–27: Anissa’s reverse waiver hearing.
June 17–18: Morgan’s reverse waiver hearing.
August 6: Bohren denies motion from June 2014 to dismiss adult charges under the Eighth Amendment.
August 10: Bohren issues his decision on Morgan’s and Anissa’s reverse waivers—the girls will remain in adult court.
September 4: Bohren denies appeals from the defense on his reverse waiver decision.
December:
The Geysers successfully petition a different judge to have Morgan emergency-detained at Winnebago.
Morgan finally receives antipsychotics and gradually improves over the course of three months.
March:
Three months after starting her on antipsychotics, Winnebago sends Morgan back to Washington County Jail.
Morgan’s attorneys submit motions to reduce her bail so that Morgan’s family can take her to doctor’s appointments.
April 15: Bohren denies motions from both Morgan’s and Anissa’s defense teams to reduce bail.
April 29: Bohren denies appeals to reverse his decision on bail modification.
May: Morgan attempts suicide and is remanded back to Winnebago.
July 27: The Wisconsin court of appeals rejects appeals from Morgan’s and Anissa’s defense teams, upholding Bohren’s ruling that the girls remain in adult jurisdiction.
September 12: Anissa’s criminal trial begins.
September 15: Jurors find Anissa not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI).
October 5: Bohren accepts a plea deal between Morgan and the prosecution, saying that Morgan will plead guilty to the charge in exchange for an NGRI verdict.
December 21: Bohren sentences Anissa to twenty-five years at Winnebago.
February 1: Bohren sentences Morgan to forty years at Winnebago.
July: Bella attends her high school graduation ceremony.
November 10: Anissa petitions for release from Winnebago.
February: Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects appeals from Morgan’s lawyers that Morgan should have been prosecuted as a juvenile.
July 1: Bohren approves Anissa’s petition for release.