The Defense was able to slide in that Chris was coming home, that the parents made arrangements for that.
I keep having to remind myself that Chris isn't 17, an age where we might expect a young man to be so deeply dependent on his parents. But he's an ADULT.
Did I hear this right? There were a period of time, while Corey was living at the grandparents' house, that Chris was dividing his time between that house and his girlfriend's? Hold the phone. He's an ADULT. With a minor child. Who gets to up and check our whenever he likes?
I don't know these parents well enough to render a full verdict but I'm easily reminded of the sort of parents who are always trying to choreograph their children's (and sometimes even adult children's) lives to so there aren't triggers or clean up after them when there are. Colloquially called enablers. I call them ironers. Still ironing their adult children's sheets for fear of what will happen when life presents a wrinkle. That's one way to grow a manboy. Schoolyard bully in the body of a 200-lb man.
I have no problem with senior parents standing by an adult defendant. But defending the indefensible? Nope, nopers, nopity nope.
JMO