Generally it is thought that women are less likely to buy the battered wife defense.
It is my opinion that those shoes were purchased after his death, else we would have heard of them sooner. The prosecutor should have done some record checking, because I'm pretty sure those things weren't purchased at Payless in Selmer, TN.
I didn't see the trial, but a friend of mine watched some and the prosecutor let her accusations go unchecked.
for instance she had said that she was on her hands and knees cleaning the floor, and he just walked up and either kicked or punched her in the head. The prosecutor asked why he would do that, and she just said "i don't know". And he just let that stand. That is rediculous.
Your opinion is wrong about the shoes. The lawyers were not allowed in the house without the police.
Another thing she claimed was that he got up that morning because the baby was crying, and put his hand over the babys’ mouth and nose to quiet her, then went back to bed. But the autopsy showed his bladder was full. So full that had he been awake, he would have had to visit the bathroom really bad, yet he supposedly got up, tried to smother the baby and walked back to the bedroom, passing the bathroom, and went back to sleep with a very full bladder.