Respectfully, IMO, there still remains reasonable doubt about MS's involvement in the crime for me. I realize that some here are thoroughly convinced otherwise, IMO.
Rather than expressing disappointment about those few among us who cannot yet agree on everything as the majority may, can it not be an opportunity for others to see how some people on the jury may in fact be seeing things too, IMO?
I am thinking about how DM appears to have various personas depending upon who he's with, IMO, and it seems to me that so do his comrades in crime, IMO. I think DM and his missionaries were heavily into role playing games that extended beyond the video game forums to include criminal escapades in the real world, IMO. IMO, DM was unquestionably the leader, but ALL his underlings were apparently strongly and badly influenced by DM and his particular warped fantasy world, and that, IMO, includes MS.
So far, I don't perceive MS to be that distinct in his actions to the other usual missionaries, IMO. Like them, MS was involved in crimes with DM previously, and the only difference in that respect that separates him from the others, IMO, is that MS has been charged for minor crimes in the past, but those crimes while disturbing, are in stark contrast to what he is on trial for now, IMO. Murder is major escalation IMO from DUI, house plants or Bobcat thefts, graffiti painting, etc., IMO.
I have been paying attention to the texts and I see those gangsta-style references as a bunch of young hoodlums who are play acting a role to impress their "peer" group and their fearsome leader, DM, IMO. Look out (pun intended). IMO, they talked the talk of the street when in like company of thieves, and some likely went home to their mom's and/or dad's homes and dropped their mystery night masks and conversed as common people among decent folks, IMO. IMO, they blended in when necessary or convenient for them. Some like MS, I imagine, stuck with the street jargon and his SAY10 street name that he perceived, IMO, portrayed him as the rapper he wished to known as when he was everywhere except at home with his mom and sisters, IMO. IMO, every last one of DM's chosen and trusted criminal associates were no better than MS, but not in any way as cruel or as calculating or as dangerous as DM, IMO. IMO they all enjoyed playing the role of street ****s with street names and with jargon to match. i.e. AM: "everytin be irie?"; perhaps by MS: Kowallski Mi Negro; (I don't know if this is accurate spelling, as it came from today's tweets, but it's racist and offensive without doubt, IMO, and it seemed suggestive of having come from MS's text, IMO); DM: "Sup?", "Dellen the Fellon", and the endless "Yo's.
In DM's secret "hood" they each felt unique, trusted, and welcome, IMO, and they ALL fit in, IMO, all except one, MS, as they say now, and yet back then I don't see evidence that MS didn't fit in with the others as suggested, IMO. They each and all enjoyed the perks and the thrills of being a part of an underground organized crime ring that appealed to each of their own weaknesses and led them all into a life of criminality, IMO, and what they now know would turn out to become a highly complicated situation that turned deadly at the will and whim of DM, IMO. The gravity of the circumstances now finally perhaps sinking in deep into their psyche's as it didn't in the days after TB was still a missing person, IMO.
IMO, DM, the sly night crew once thought, would protect them if ever they got caught for their other petty crimes, which seemed to be a shared opinion by all, except for MS, who curiously immediately felt threatened by the thought that DM had set him up, IMO. MS was reportedly in a state of major panic worrying about that scenario while the others, IMO, still loyal to DM, tried to ensure that the "outsider" had the heat put on him while they, IMO, did all they could to avoid feeling any heat on themselves, IMO. Some of the missionaries escaped relatively unscathed when compared to the situation MS now faces, IMO. IMO, any one of these characters might well have agreed to participate in a truck theft mission with DM at his bidding, had they been so summoned, IMO, - and I am not suggesting that they did - what I am saying is that according to the evidence, it would not be such a stretch to imagine it possible that had they been asked they may have agreed to go along on such mission for DM, IMO, and in with that observation I don't see much difference between MS - yet - and the others, IMO. My point is that while many here are convinced by the evidence that MS not only participated in a pre-meditated truck theft, he is presumed by some, if not most, to have been aware that DM was going to kill the owner, IMO, and I, based on the evidence of witness testimony and texts that do IMO, leave room for interpretation - so far - I can't yet make that huge leap, IMO. The history of DM and his crew, suggest other possibilities still exist about MS and his involvement in this vicious and utterly inhumane crime, IMO. OTOH, I do think DM is already proved to be guilty beyond all reasonable doubt, IMO.
All MOO. All strictly my own opinion. Sorry for all the IMOs but I need to make sure I am clearly stating only my opinion.