This has actually been quite interesting reading everyone's take now that the evidence is concluded. The one comment that stood out to me...and I apologize for not giving credit to the original poster...is, what differentiates the evidence against DM vs. MS as it pertains to premeditation? It seems to me that there wasn't anything that stood out to suggest that DM had planned to murder TB. We don't know who brought the gun, we don't know who was in the truck when TB was shot and we definitely do not know who pulled the trigger. For all the reasons people are stating they don't think MS knew the plan, these same reasons could be applied to DM, no? It would be the same for forcible confinement as well. Without knowing who brought the gun, who was in the truck, who pointed the gun....are they not both equally covered by reasonable doubt? I just don't see anything that DM said/did/texted that definitively shows differences between himself and MS. MOO
For the record I don't believe for a second that they both were not fully aware of the plan. One thing I think we can all agree on is that the two people who were involved in this are the two that are on trial. The question is what is the sentence. MOO