I think this is where the judge really made a mistake in allowing the defense to instruct the jury on points of law. Sure you can bring up that you dont think the prosecution has established X, Y, or Z, but he shouldnt have been allowed to tell the jury what they had to have for a conviction.
I'm not sure the life insurance was the primary motive. The jury will have seen the Gerber Life commercials and might not think it's very strange or telling that there was insurance. They will probably be more interested in the internet searches.
As far as the accident--we have one of those open foyers with the railings, obviously not as grand as the Coronado mansion, but I walked out of the bathroom after a 3 minute pee break once to see my then five year old son standing on the OUTSIDE edge of the railing upstairs, inching along. I...
They always make notes on testimony so that they can address, clarify, or try to neutralize on redirect. Noticing that after that video plays and gets to the screen with the stills from similar videos, there is one with Barbie and Ken??!
(That first part was directed at lewcch)
It is so weird but I've found that clients who are heavily narcissistic tend to use big words inappropriately or pronounce them incorrectly...and it's just not that hard to look in a dictionary and find that, say, "casing" a neighborhood is not the same as "canvassing" it.
At least Juan going after her on the stand was entertaining!
I do understand his position. Wilmott's too. She's the client and they work for her, boom. I think Nurmi would have been more effective with a less drawn-out, crawling style of questioning and I wouldn't want him defending me b/c I...
If he had gone with just BPD and tried to prove diminished responsibility, he would have achieved the same result most likely without boring the world to tears for months and making himself a laughingstock. I guess if your client insists it was self defense and is so deluded as to think someone...
I think she had been thinking about it for a while in an abstract sort of way but something triggered her that night, probably a fight with Darin.
If she had gone with a "post-partum depression + diet pill rage" defense she might have at least stayed off death row.
I'm a licensed mental health therapist in my state and one odd thing that I have observed about my clients who I thought had narcissistic personalities was that they would use words incorrectly. Frequently they were big words but sometimes they were just the wrong words. And you could tell the...
If you can't handle a cross-examination, don't hire yourself out as an expert witness. Opposing counsel isn't going to make you a cup of tea and rub your feet.
The ER thing was a stunt. If she has an anxiety d/o she probably has an RX for something she could have taken. Generally people only...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiana_Edmunds
I read about this woman in a book about Broadmoor and its inmates. She makes me think of Jodi, what with her delusions about her "relationship" with the doctor and thinking she was some sort of hot little number up to the day she died at 79.
This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register.
By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.