Remember when the Menendez brothers killed their parents? At the time I remembered thinking, "Why didn't they just leave? They were adults. They could have gotten on a bus and moved to Maine."

I think defense attorneys try their best to get their clients off, no matter what. This doesn't always mean that their clients are innocent.

Our Court System is not about justice, fairness or common sense - its about evidence that can be admitted to court, skill of the lawyers and judicial bias.

A case law study involved a murder where a couple of cops heard a lady calling for help from an apartment so they broke in and found a woman beaten and tied up in the bedroom. They then looked around, opened the door to the bedroom closet and found a dead Nun who had been dismembered. They caught the guy and took him to trial. He admitted he murdered the Nun etc. The Court, however, tossed out his confession and all all evidence of the murdered Nun because the cops did not have a search warrant.

In a trials the most important factor to winning is the jury selected, followed by the evidence you can get in for the jury to see and at a far distant last is the facts of the case.

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Outside judicial bias I don't think the system is wrong. Defense attny's goal most of the time is to win the "game" according to the rules in the law. Innocent or not, that's the system

My gripe in this case is imo the misuse of domestic violence in the court of public opinion. Defense lawyers can and do put forth crap and in this case that's what they are doing...it worked for the Anthony. Juries can be stupid and this just bugs me

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I think she is a cold blooded psychobitchfromhell.

Let's see. As a former prosecutor, I'd ask two questions.Was it the shooting, the 29 stab wounds or the thoat slitting that constituted the self defense. And if the defendant was so afraid of a [presumably] live perp, why get close enough to slit his throat and stab him 29 times, when the gun allows her to defend herself from a safe distance? Just sayin'.

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Outside judicial bias I don't think the system is wrong. Defense attny's goal most of the time is to win the "game" according to the rules in the law. Innocent or not, that's the system

My gripe in this case is imo the misuse of domestic violence in the court of public opinion. Defense lawyers can and do put forth crap and in this case that's what they are doing...it worked for the Anthony. Juries can be stupid and this just bugs me

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I am not sure of her guilt or innocence, that old presumption thing you understand, but after having read all she did to this guy, I felt fairly certain in concluding she was a mite upset.

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She is crazy for sure. Evil too.