[wideawake]

If he was conscious and thrashing, he elicited no reaction in Ersland's body language or pace, and he confined all the thrashing to a very restricted area.

Ersland's demeanor as he finished him off was nonchalant, not the body language of a man dealing with someone who was harassing or resisting.

Ersland was not exactly following the old eightfold path on that one.

[TigersEye]

None of that is evidence of anything and is speculation of the most far-reaching nature. Hardly the kind of thing to convict someone of Murder One on.

At least you tacitly admit that your previous statement that "it's all on tape" was false.

[TigersEye]

Ersland was not exactly following the old eightfold path on that one.

I wasn't aware that the law in any state in the U.S. was based on the Eightfold Path.