In 2017, Weier pleaded guilty to being a party to attempted second-degree homicide.[16] A jury then found her "not guilty by mental disease or defect."[17][18] Geyser accepted a plea offer under which she would not go to trial and would be evaluated by psychiatrists to determine how long she should be placed in a mental hospital.[19] She later pleaded guilty but was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, from which her father also suffers.[20][21]