I was thinking about MS's testimony and wondering if it is very calculated and if it could actually help DM in a roundabout way, IMO. Perhaps the strategy is that both blame the other to such an extent that the jury will be so confused and therefore have reasonable doubt about both and then neither of them will be convicted?
Maybe it's just me, but my head is spinning with all the details and it's so tough to figure it all out, IMO, but maybe that's precisely what DM and MS and CN are hoping for in this case? If DM and MS and CN and company all conspired together, after TB's murder but before DM's arrest, and came up with a plan, a "mission" if you will, and decided to each tell specific stories and stick to a script in the event that DM or MS were caught, they may have figured that together they could outfox LE and the jury if it came down to it? It would be a masterpiece of a plan, the ultimate mission if it could work, and if not they'd be no worse off for having tried, IMO. They could succeed in their mission by adding to the doubt and confusion about their involvement in the theft and murder of TB by putting forth opposing or competing theories via witness testimony? DM glaring at MS could all be an act? Maybe they believed they were smarter than LE and the Crown prosecutors who would have a hard time pinning the crime definitively on one or the other, IMO. All the witnesses including MS and DM (if he was to testify) would have to do is blame each other and conveniently forget a lot of what happened - and that would be anything that could not be proven by evidence - have alternate explanations for the meaning of texts, and no matter how outlandish a story they were prepared to tell (thinking here of DM's letters and CN's testimony) their wicked minds were determined to make a sick game of the trial with the ingenious objective of them both securing acquittals, IMO.
The reason I wonder about such a zany possibility is that I believe this group was a criminal sub-culture unto themselves who had no real meaning or purpose in their lives, who rejected societies rules and expectations of them and gladly rebelled against law and order and preferred to live on their own terms, IMO. Therefore they did anything they liked for kicks and excitement, they regularly relied on drugs (use and sales) and drinking and video games and movies with a known gun dealer and escorts and conducted occasional theft missions when the mood struck DM's fancy, and they did all this as adults who had never matured and had no plans to in the near future, IMO. And they did things without conscience or care in order to escape life's responsibilities and to feel alive, IMO. Then the escapades they were all involved in became routine over time, so they got ratcheted up and escalated to include violence to experience their twisted thrills that ordinary life could never compete with, IMO. I'm thinking here of how DM texted AM when DM said that from now on the missions would be dangerous and that they'd just take what they wanted, IMO. IIRC, AM replied that he was down for that, IMO. They all showed no respect for themselves, no respect for their own property or the property of others, no appreciation of the value of life or their own lives or the lives of others, no belief in a higher power from what I can tell, and I see them all as bonded together as a deviant underground family of misfits for better or for worse, IMO.
I know such a plan may seem preposterous, but this crime and all the details I've heard about to date leave me wondering about so many possibilities. I hope the jury finds both DM and MS guilty but I worry about the outcome and I likely will until I hear the final verdicts, IMO. Maybe this has just been another long day and I'm needing sleep to restore my perspective.
All MOO.