A couple thoughts this morning.
PF's attorney has to do his best to defend an indefensible client. That's the way our system works. I think he knows 'winning' because of a single holdout juror is a long shot - and I suspect DA May would immediately go for a new trial if that happened.
What I think he can and will do is try to undermine KK's testimony - anything not supported by hard evidence - and hope to mitigate PF's sentence.
For example: based on the evidence we have seen (which is not all there is), I believe the defense could challenge the 'solicitation' charges. Do we actually have hard evidence - texts, for example - that PF solicited KK? Defense can claim that she was a jealous woman who made that part up, and that actually she was goading PF, encouraging him to kill her rival.
None of that would get PF off the hook for the murder, but it might lead to a slightly lighter sentence. I think the defense will try to paint a picture of two conniving people, the woman clearly the smarter and more determined of the two (she was making regular 800 mile rou2got off easy; PF was just her dummy puppet.
I don't know what the sentencing ranges in Colorado are for this kind of crime - and I don't know what kind of sentences are generally handed down for these crimes. It would be a big victory for PF (and a loss for justice) if PF gets less than a life sentence without possibility of parole.
My other thought, because I despise what this awful man did to KB - broke her heart, tore her life apart and then murdered her. It looks like he set her up in a particularly vicious way - letting her think maybe things were looking up between them.
Well, I think he got some payback for that four days before Christmas when he got arrested. Like KB, little did he know when he got up that morning what the day held for him. I'm sure he never dreamed that he has possibly laid eyes on the ranchette for the last time in his life. No warning, no 'goodbyes', and best of all, no bail.