[anniegetyourgun]

I suspect this angle, the robbery in AL, and the revenge shooting in Tacoma (along with other crimes he may have committed such as extortion, fraud, forgery, etc.) will be downplayed in the criminal trial. His attorneys will need to portray him as a political prisoner who was acting on his calling from Allah, blah, blah, blah.....

Malvo, on the other hand, has no such story to lean on since he is an animist and not muslim. He will undoubtedly, however, get played out as a sad case 'child' whose father abandoned him, blah, blah, blah....

[Catspaw]

Malvo, I suspect, is going to be portrayed as a poor child led astray by a Svengali, the *real* mastermind of the crimes, the evil John Mohammed. Mohammed, as his former divorce/post-divorce lawyer is already portraying him, was driven mad by his ex-wife who wouldn't let him see his children (even though he violated the custody order & concealed the kids for a year & owes thousands in child support--and has a history of violence predating her by years), so it's all her fault.

[1234]

He will undoubtedly, however, get played out as a sad case 'child' whose father abandoned him, blah, blah, blah....

AND remember, a defense might include a homosexual victim(of MUHAMMED), psychological/emotional coercion aspect, as a mitigating factor....

[PoisedWoman]

..... Malvo, on the other hand, has no such story to lean on since he is an animist

Downright fascinating. Where did you get that information? Does this mean that Malvo is a follower of voodoo or santeria?

And BTW, has anyone actually seen the tarot card? There are several kinds of tarot decks, including a voodoo tarot which looks very different from others. I surfed around yesterday to see if I could find pictures online of voodoo tarot that depicted a duck and a noose, but could not find many pictures. But it had occurred to me that tarot, duck-noose imagery might be voodoo. Malvo had been in Haiti, where voodoo is practiced.