I can’t believe this. Those poor families have suffered enough.
Well I still hope that ultimately law will win over sympathy, even if it’s only a fig leaf of law. As otherwise, what happened in this case would gain precedential value over more “normal” crime cases. Is keeping a bloody murder nailed without the ado of a second trial worth dozens of “ordinary” crime suspects not able to get a judge who isn’t corrupt?
It really ought to go under a third judge that had nothing to do with either Baumgartner or Blackwood, as Blackwood negotiated easier terms for the corrupted Baumgartner and is therefore not free of Baumgartner’s stink. I fear as is, it is the worst of all worlds. Blackwood will get the second trial and then the slam dunk verdict will get knocked down AGAIN from the Federal level.