Thank heavens I caught up with you'all ( as they say over there ) before I invested time in watching the court stream first. I will watch it later on now, now that I know he is not testifying, not that he would ever have had the cojones to do that Far too much exposure for Ronald. But I had hoped.
The defence team was terrible, far too much confected outrage and too many futile attempts to muddy waters and place false tracks.... the unsuccessful strategy of trying to impeach expert witnesses appears to have continued today, the same script as tried on with each one who testified, except the police and the Border Patrol. They were not instructed by their client to go after them, apparently. But Ronald must have instructed Pena to sink the boot into his wife. What a .
I was prepared to give a nod to Mr Pena, the lead defence, but he well and truly blotted his copybook when he made a remark to the effect that BOTH mr and mrs Burgos-Aviles were unfaithful in their marriage, thereby in one unguarded moment of peeve kicking poor Mrs B-A under the bus, along with a murdering fool for a husband,and destroying his clients one and only claim to defence , that he didn't want his wife to find out, ..but she already knew he was a wandering idiot. Mr Pena played the part of a courtly hidalgo , cluttered up with inconvenient details about his client, who is not smart, and the witnessess testifying for the prosecution who were without exception , off the rails smart, and of a certain degree of competence not often seen.
There was a definite air of kindness and boundless compassion ( not often seen in any court ) about the prosecution witnesses. From the patrolman,, to the borderpatrol people, the Laredo police, the detectives, the medical examiner, the pathologist, her suffering sister, the broken hearted friend, and the echoes of the motherless son at home with the daughterless grandmother...
The sight of Ronald and his strangely coiffured duenna won't be missed, that was disturbing to watch, and inexplicable, since he had no intention of testifying, perhaps she was there to comfort and keep him somewhat sedated. In that, she did succeed, he only managed to sneer and lip curl a lot, but mostly hours of holding his own head up in his murderous hands.
