Recent content by JLZ

I wonder how often bail does get forfeited. I have the impression I read of bail conditions broken somewhat frequently.

Bail money gets returned, unless the accused person runs away.

I do see that, but if for example it had been a flying leap at the victim while he snarled, "Get out of my way!", an observer wouldn't comment, "and then he didn't even help her up!"

Yeah, but the victim and partner think they've photographed the man who knocked her down. But they haven't photographed him immediately, but when they saw him again a few minutes later. It sounds like they lost sight of him in between? How good a look did they get of the offender, the first...

I wonder what other evidence police have. That photograph doesn't seem to be enough. Two doubts: maybe it isn't Anthony in the picture, and maybe the picture isn't of the same person who barged the woman.

Not my cleverest thought.

BBM, because the defence appear to be resiling from the agreed facts? If the defence hadn't conceded certain facts the prosecution might have wanted to bring additional evidence.

"The real Erin". I suggest that there isn't one presentation that's real and the rest are fake. I think she isn't connected up underneath, and whatever she's performing at the time is as real as she gets. I'm thinking of the religious conversion experience, the series of contrasting...

And notice that she's triangulating in both directions. Wanting the parents to side with her against Simon. And complaining to Simon about his parents, as we saw with the birthday invitation, expecting him to support her position of grievance.

I suspect that on some level before Simon declared himself separated Erin thought that her marriage was a brilliant success on her own original design, and that Simon recognized his privilege in being part of it.

I think you're approaching this backwards. Have you heard anything to make you think she murdered people? After you've made that call, you can reflect on her character, or not. Either way she'll be human, complex and imperfect.

I hadn't read that far when I posted, and then I saw you said the same thing, but faster.

To put it delicately, the child is loyal.

I think she is raising the possibility that the death cap traces in the dehydrator were from another foraging occasion when she did not eat or feed anybody the mushrooms because the experiment didn't work to her satisfaction. That the death caps that killed the guests could have been from...

She could confess on the stand, wouldn't that be dramatic, and it would stop the case right there. But perhaps she's enjoying the catharsis, doesn't want it to stop.