“I have given this situation some thought and if I’m ever in the gallery, watching the murderer of my relative sitting before me I have a solution.”
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“Relative” includes a sister-in-law, a nephew, an uncle. This was the CHILD of this guy. No one could really condemn the guy for any action he chose to take, whether in the throes of agony or with pre-meditation.
I'm close to several of my more distant relatives,ie. nephew, niece, step-daughters. Close relatives are a given.
He may walk out to the courtroom but he wouldn't likely see the same date the following month.