For clarity, based on the known facts and evidence revealed so far, I personally believe BK is the perpetrator of this horrendous crime and lone perpetrator and that he’s likely not capable of any of the feelings/emotions mentioned below but this post isn’t about that.
It’s about one of the statements/filing his lead defense counsel, AT, made to the court.
IMO the closest thing we’ll see
to a pretrial confession in this case was something articulated by defense counsel AT when she stated the following to the court. I couldn’t copy over the court filing on my phone but snipped from link below, B&UBM:
…. and that his lack of social awareness “
will likely create an unwarranted impression of
lack of remorse” before jurors.
IMO if AT wants the court and future jurors to believe her client is innocent/not guilty of this horrendous crime, why mention his lack of showing remorse?????
To explain my pondering of this question, IMO remorse is an emotion of self judgement, meaning someone feeling/showing regret, guilt, sorrow over their past wrongdoing/bad actions/crimes/murder.
That said, considering the context, imo AT’s statement is contradictory since remorse indicates guilt which imo is the exact opposite of what AT wants the court and jury to believe.
IOW, AT shouldn’t be concerned and telling the court about BK’s inability to show remorse in front of the jury. Rather, she should be concerned about his inability to show sadness, sympathy and compassion because those are things jurors would expect an innocent person to feel and show for four brutally murdered victims of homicide.
Sadness, Sympathy, Compassion yes, but not Remorse if your client didn’t do anything wrong/didn’t murder the four college students, right? right AT?? (wink, wink).
IMO either AT doesn’t know or understand what remorse means or she flubbed up and her real feelings/belief slipped out in her statement. I’m going with the latter, and imo it’s a huge tell, as in-
Tell the court you believe your client is guilty without telling the court you believe your client is guilty.
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