Once again I am sickened by the treatment the TRASH involved in these murders have been given by the court system in Knoxville. It was ruled today that IF Davidson takes the stand the state can bring up his prior robbery conviction, but not his prior carjacking conviction. IF I am wrong in what I repeated and believe me I do want to be wrong then please, SuziQ, anyone, correct me. These poor families, my heart aches to the core for them. I realize every person has to have their day in court, I realize that I probably would not make a good juror since I wear my heart on my sleeve and empathize with people, BUT.......how do the defense attorneys sleep at night? How can a judge rule on something like this with the decision he did? I can't stand to see people who have worked for what they have to be beaten up like these families have been.
There has been a charity set up to receive donations for the month of September for the families and to help defray the cost of them taking off from work and such so that they can be in court every time these THUGS are in court. They reported tonight that there has been over 6,000.00 collected so far.
I sat and talked to my husband and mother tonight about this case and I consider myself lucky, I consider my family lucky, if that is what you want to call it. The closest family member I have had to pass away is my father who died 4 years ago at the age of 59. He died of asbestos poisoning, my mother came home and found him. I was a daddy's girl, I adored him, my mother is my best friend, but I knew my father was dying, I watched him suffer daily and after the days and months of watching him smother and almost losing my mind when he passed, I still got those last few days with him. I cannot imagine losing him or anyone to a violent death. I watched a son go to Iraq and back and I cried for days because I was so afraid, but I had those days with him. I guess what I am trying to say is those of us who HAVEN'T lost someone close to violence will never know the pain, anguish and courage the surviving family members go through. I know there are a lot of people on this site who have seen that part of society and my heart goes out to you.
Things like this make the world scary at times especially since it happened within 15 minutes from my home.