[StAnDeliver]

"Yes, this is CNN-style justice all right. I think perhaps his lawyer failed in the jury selection process...Voluntary manslaughter would have been an alternate finding that the jury could have settled on."

IF the judge had allowed it. He ruled out VM and 2nd Degree.

[Cicero]

Yes, evidently Fox got that right and CNN didn’t.

I wonder if he was well advised by his lawyer. He wanted to be honest, but he was not obliged to plead guilty. He could have pled nolo contendere or even “innocent” on the basis that he was justified in defending the lives of future babies after the law had refused to intervene against numerous illegal actions on Tiller’s part.

As it was, he apparently was not allowed any scope at all by the judge.