Some things I have heard/seen over the past couple of days:
1 During the trial there was testimony that it was not uncommon for residents to park in the wrong area and try to enter someone else’s residence.
2. Black colleagues were almost giddy with joy over the guilty verdict. Seemed to be HAPPY. A bit disturbing. Not a “justice is served!” attitude, more like a “yay! She is going to prison!” (FWIW, I think she should be accountable.)
3. Benjamin Crump, the Florida based “lawyer” who also got involved with the family of George Zimmerman’s attacker, said this verdict was something like payback for Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland,.etc. He clearly mixed apples and oranges in his pursuit of publicity. I doubt if any “journalists” covering his remarks challenged Crump.
If that kind of thing was,in fact,known to happen that would lend credence to her basic claim...her basic defense.If one accepts that she,innocently,entered that apartment believing it was hers then it's not difficult to imagine her being *very* frightened and,acting on instinct and/or police training,fired.