It is especially aggravating that she and her husband have been allowed to sit in that courtroom, day in day out, under the Florida Victim Family law listening to other testimony (and being coached/rehearsed by the prosecutor each night) AND THEN be allowed to testify herself is not only patently unfair to the defense, but especially egregious bias on the part of the judge.
To me, this one fact alone should be grounds for a mistrial (not going to happen) or reversal on appeal.
There have been multiple instances like this where the judge has arbitrarily ruled against the defense in favor of the prosecution. She has no inkling of what justice is. She should be disbarred.
What they should do is “booth them” so the jury cannot see them and visa versa.
Not only will any conviction, if it occurs, be thrown out on appeal in record time, but this judge should be sanctioned if not outright impeached and removed from the bench for her obvious bias in favor of the prosecution.
Having said that, the likely outcome is a hung jury. I will be shocked to see a unanimous verdict for either conviction or acquittal. That's when the fun begins.
Of course the judge is tainted, but there is one scenario that could be coming into play, a far stretch at best, that the judge is allowing the prosecution to hang themselves, with an obvious trumped-up, overcharged case, that it will soften the final blow and remove the steam being generated outside the courtroom...
My fear, and I am sure a lot more agree, that the intimidation will effect the jury, and force them to hit and run back to their lives... This is our Country, and unless something doesn't change, we are indeed finished as a great nation...
Does anyone remember how Trayvon’s father admitted that the screams on the tape were not Trayvon’s screams. This was before the Race Baiters Sharpton & Jackson came to town. Then the story changed, but the Prosecution couldn’t call on daddy, just perjurer Mommy.