Thanks for staying on top of everything relating to this case, borndem. Your updates are the best!
So glad things turned out the way they did in this trial. I know nothing will bring Jamie back, but it's comforting to know that justice has been served. I really don't see an appeal working in JB's favor either given how quickly the jury arrived at their decision this time.
It's really tuff to defend someone when there is a credible eyewitness to a murder -- obviously the time it took him to walk to the dining room (was it?), to go into his backpack to get the big chef's knife, to walk back into the kitchen and make the first stab --
into her back, the so-and-so -- certainly took away all possibilities of anything less than 1st Degree. He was in cold, not hot, blood; he obviously thought about and planned it, at least as far as bringing his own chosen and bought-for-one-purpose weapon to a known upcoming meeting; and, poor slob, he had an eyewitness. (Dayam.) Textbook 1st Degree Murder. Arbour and Elliot didn't have squat, and neither would anyone else have had, other than pleading temporary insanity -- really tuff to pull off. But they can appeal all they wish... And yeah, what grounds -- not allowing whatever it was that we didn't get to hear, which the good Judge Ridgeway heard & deemed irrelevant (or whatever his word was...).
Well, didn't I ramble-on?? Let me stop. Anyway, this thread will probably stay open, so if anyone hears anything about an appeal, we can post it here.
You made your own bed, Jonathan Broyhill, snuggle down for a long, long, long nap.
So very glad you joined us, Tedanddix. I enjoyed getting to know you! (((hugs to you)))