He did not shoot him. He strangled the child to death.
It's a good thing I am not on the jury.
Actually, I would sleep better knowing you and others like you were on the jury...especially during the penalty phase.
The jury is probably chomping at the bit to convict this guy. Death penalty is a given, I'd think. I cannot see how anyone can defend Earnest's right to life after what he did. In one of the articles, the defense said something about Earnest's being under the influence of drugs being a mitigating circumstance in the penalty phase. I don't see how that could mitigate anything -- he chose to be on drugs.
In another case I read about (Carla Brucia) the defense attorney was quoted as saying that the defendant didn't take drugs, "drugs took him". What a bunch of horse s--t.
Like drugs reach out and grab people, forcing them to commit heinous crimes. That goes down as the stupidest thing I've ever heard anyone say.
I'm glad Lisa Ainsworth, the vet who was married to that POS testified against him. I read an article with an interview with her, early in the case, and she said something along the lines of standing by her man. I'm glad she didn't. That interview was done in the early days, I guess, when his now ex-wife didn't know the whole story and was probably in denial. I would never think my husband would or could do something like that, and I guess she didn't either, for a while.