“never say never.
you have six mothers watching a “grieving mother”
of course now the father’s testimony is tainted.
I want to see crump’s testimony.”
I realize the jury make-up is a bit of a wild card, but I’m not all that certain the jury is overly sympathetic towards TM’s mum. We all know there’s no one more judgmental about women than other women, and that goes double when a mother is judging anothers child rearing skills.
Between Di Maio and Root the self defense case is about as sewn up as possible. Instructions aside, when the jury sees the video now they will have no reason to assume it’s not an accurate depiction of events.
At this point my hold out fear is that the jury might try to split the baby a little thinking (incorrectly) that a manslaughter sentence would be substantially less.
At this point my hold out fear is that the jury might try to split the baby a little thinking (incorrectly) that a manslaughter sentence would be substantially less.