I found this was a similar issue in another murder case I followed where the wife/ killer argued DV as her defense. An expert observed that a battered wife will still express love and commitment to her husband, regardless of the abuse... this is one of the complicating factors that make women stay/ want to go back. As in the other case I followed, Molly didn't bother to pretend that she loved her husband - she thought it was enough to say he was abusive. She doesn't understand the complexity and turmoil of loving an abusive man while hating his behaviour.
I honestly do not understand the dV conversation.
Molly said nothing at all except that she understood her decision not to testify .
where is the DV evidence, apart from Jason's murdered body?
The dV was a facebook myth like so many others, but with all Molly said, I never actually saw her utter those words.
molly is a fantasist, if nothing else.
she alluded to many flavored horrors that could have compelled or justified crushing her husband's skull.
She never said DV.
Why is everybody latching on to dV themes when we have already discussed the topic to death, having fallen prey to her delusional life 18 months ago?
We knew from the very outset that she had never filed a DV complaint.
we knew that because LE told us.
But we still rehashed Dv as if it was a factor.
The trial has produced no evidence of Dv.
The Np's statement is as likely to have been about poisoning than Jc suddenly becoming an angry person.
Its quite possible she substituted his prescribed meds for Trazadone.. The prosecutor suggested a poisoning was likely.
Did the NP even refer him to a doctor or review his meds if he actually reported having a sudden personality change?
No, she did not.
Was it incompetence on her part?
DV is not an aspect of this case.
Battering is.
Jason was battered to death.
I would much prefer to discuss why the crime wasn't charged as Murder 1.
I would also like the Grand Jury proceedings to have become unsealed for the jurors.
This crime was very well planned.
It is quite possible to keep a dead body warm for several hours by using artificial heating. is that why the vacuum cleaner had been moved? To make way for a different appliance to be plugged in to keep his body relatively warm for a time, until they were ready to call the eMT people.?
Yes, the judge stated the children had been coached, as Petfriend said.
Yes, the defence had access to the autopsy of MC and they knew how she died.
Not a single soul witnessed DV with Molly as victim.
nobody at all.
I still have not the faintest idea why they sliced the trial into a perfunctory hearing, similar in scope and duration to a financial case, involving taxes or some such thing.
where is the truth?
Let us cease supporting their fantasy?
“The enemy, when you cave a man’s skull in, is justice.”
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/us-jury-sent-out-in-trial-of-molly-martens-and-father-for-murder-1.3180569