If the evidence shows AA killed her,
burned her, buried her, the following is true: It does not matter
which person arranged the meeting details. In the same vein, it does not matter if Kenzie was a SB, a waitress at IHOP, or a kindergarten
teacher. This is about the slaughter
of a young woman. Period!
Whilst I don't wish to argue with you, you're incorrect when it comes to the court.
Common law is removed from emotion. It has to be that way to be impartial.
It will matter very much who ML was as a person. It will matter who AA is as a person.
Everything is looked at as a progression of facts. That helps to determine what AA was culpable of, if anything. You may
feel he's guilty and deserves the death penalty, but there are certain qualifications that the court must hit to call for that.
Nothing that could be bought up would ever mean that ML deserved to be murdered - establishing a progression of facts isn't interchangeable with blame.
But how the situation occurred matters very much, regardless of how much anger people feel about the loss of MacKenzie.
The court has to consider a myriad of things ;
Was it intentional? Yes? Then AA is culpable of X and will be sentenced accordingly.
No? Then AA can plead Y and will be punished at a suitable level.
Was there a level of planning? Was it in the heat of the moment? Did he panic after the fact and cover the murder up? Was it self defense?
Whilst I'm not even vaguely inferring it was self defense, these things all have to be considered.
What lead up to it, what relationship they had, what expectations either had for the evening, what lead them to be at that place in time, how it progressed to MacKenzie losing her life etc
Everyone can sit at home and make up their mind that someone is guilty, but proving it in a court of law, then taking into account the individuals involved and their state of mind and level of expected responsibility is, isn't remotely the same.
It's understandable to want justice for a murder victim, it's understandable to want it regardless of what occurred, but 1st world legal systems thankfully are more involved than what people feel.
As I said, things will come out in court that relate directly to how the situation came to be, that people will find unpalatable.
The court discussing those things do not in any way translate to blaming MacKenzie for her death. I'm not speaking about the SB thing either. I'm speaking of why she met up with him in the first place.
The defense will capitalise on the sensationalism of it, because their job is to defend AA. Prosecution will perhaps use AA's background as evidence that he had some level of premeditation. Both sides will use the other individuals lifestyle as contributing factors to prove their case.
The court however, relies on people taking off their emotional lenses and putting on their factual ones for impartiality.