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So JM's description that a stabbing occuring in somebody's home would always constitute felony murder isn't accurate. A burglary is one of the crimes listed in the Arizona criminal statute, but not a stabbing. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule_(Arizona), reproduced below...

Ugh, I think JM bungled the explanation for how JA committed felony murder. I don't think the stabbing itself can be the felony, can it? Doesn't the felony have to be another felony other than the murder itself?

Finally Juan makes the argument that the sequence of events (gunshot first or stabbing first) doesn't matter. Wow, it took him long enough to say it.

JA is acting like she is reading these instructions for the first time. Maybe she should've reviewed the likely instructions before her trial started and taken them into consideration when preparing her strategy and testimony.

Wouldn't it have been great if the prosecution argued its case that way?

Yes, I totally agree.

Exactly.

Wishful thinking on your part. He actually testified that the gunshot wound was almost certainly _not_ immediately incapacitating, directly contradicting the ME's testimony.

I believe that question shows that at least one juror/alternate is not buying the ME's testimony that the gunshot wound was necessarily immediately incapacitating.

Sorry, but it's "SKU" (stock-keeping unit), not "skew." LOL.

They're showing juror #5 on WAT live feed. She's still in the courtroom even though almost all of the other spectators have left. I think the camera is supposed to be off?

Why is ALV so reluctant to apply her continuum to Snow White? Her continuum obviously could be applied to a character in a fictional story.

I can totally understand TA's frustration with JA's lie that someone at the restaurant had told her that he was seeing someone. JA got that information by accessing TA's email account, right? And then she lied about having gotten the information from a coworker. TA caught her in the lie...

Not to give the knife firsters any more ammunition, but there is one thing in particular that bothers me about the gun-first theory (and, no, I'm not talking about the ME's testimony): When the jury asked JA why she just didn't fire another shot, JA answered that she didn't know where the gun...

I don't think JA dropped the camera in the bathroom during or after the ceiling shot. That's just a story that JA concocted after seeing the photographic evidence and trying to provide a justification for self defense. I believe detective Flores testified that the bathroom ceiling shot was...