Indeed, what Dede actually did is material. He entered a stranger’s garage at 1 am thinking that it would go unpunished. There was no trap. Dede was not “hunted” as the prosecution painted it—which reduces Dede to a dumb animal running on instinct rather than a human with free moral agency, albeit demonstrably on the side of evil.
Why would someone enter your home uninvited? Especially at 1 am? I have never had a stranger dare do that.
“There was no trap.”
You keep saying this, but the investigators and jurors disagree with you. Do you have some evidence to present that they didn’t have?
“Why would someone enter your home uninvited?”
A multitude of reasons. Perhaps someone is drunk and thought it was their house. Perhaps they were a friend or relative of yours stopping by, and thought they were familiar enough with you that you wouldn’t mind. Perhaps it was a police officer who thought they saw a situation where someone might be in immediate danger and they were investigating. Or perhaps they were chasing a fugitive and thought he may have fled into your domicile. Just because you can’t think of a reason doesn’t mean one couldn’t exist.
Why are you so eager to find an excuse to kill someone?
A conversation can start about law and order with everyone on the same page, but when it becomes clear that one of the guys is eagerly searching for an excuse to kill someone, everybody else kind of moves away from that mental case.