Well until someone starts asking some pretty tough questions I don't think we'll even hear about the POSSIBILITY of there being any other suspect than DW I mean, he's CREEPY, and all remember?
I did catch Samantha's mom on CNN this am and it was heart breaking. She also said however that she had heard the DA in Avila's prior case saying that he was going to have a hard time dealing with the fact that Avila was aquitted.
She said she told him he had done everything in his power to try to bring the man to justice and didn't blame him.
She then said, "I blame every member of the jury that belived this murderer of children over those two girls." And "all you have to do in California is belive the child but they didn't and they let him out on the streets."
She said it with so much hatred in her voice I was slightly startled before realizing that was greif and the pain of her loss that spoke. I really hate those so-called journalists who have the need to shove a microphone into a persons face who has just suffered a terrible loss. They capitalize on their grief and pain, it is emotional rape of the worst kind.
I don't know WHY the Jury let Avila off, if the two girls came forward and witnessed that he did in fact, molest them. I can't see that Avila had an attorney of Feldman's class, maybe even a public defender, but the Prosecutor didn't present a strong enough case to convict the first time. So the Jury is blamed? I don't know....
And I can't judge how Mantha's Mom is feeling, except to say, I don't blame her for saying ANYTHING at this time.
OTOH, Samantha's Murder and Now Cassie's Murder come at the worst possible time for DW.
If the Jury were sequestered and couldn't watch the news, listen to Rick Roberts and read the papers, they wouldn't feel the pressure to go forward and convict... but now, (and I don't care what anyone says to the contrary) they will feel it's their duty to find him guilty, lest they suffer the consequences if down the road, he commits an act of violence.
The jury is tainted, and Westerfields right to a fair trial have been violated, IMHO.
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