Your second paragraph, MOO, many signs of consciousness of guilt for Nick, also, that it was premeditated.
I’m wondering if he wore gloves, thick jacket for the crime. According to hotel check-in. He looked tweaked, but no cuts on hands arms. Maybe even a hat, mask and glasses to avoid spatter, or defensive nails marks.
I still think Alan Jackson was brought on to frame the crime as insanity( schizophrenia, meth rage etc), at first. This stretches the beginning out, gives Alan more time. Nick goes to a mental hospital(gets out of LA Jail), get stable, then continue with the murder case in court.
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You raise good points and I’m wondering same with respect to whether NR was wearing gloves, etc. I also agree with your thoughts as to reason why Alan Jackson was hired to defend NR.
Jumping off your post-
It’s still early on and we don’t know everything LE/P have amassed r/t evidence. I’m torn on whether a plea deal will be offered by P or negotiated at D’s request. Hard to gauge at this early stage. My guess is there will be no plea deal offered or agreed to if LE/P has already got or after review and analyzing of all the forensics/digital forensics are completed, uncovers evidence of premeditation leading up to the horror. Having said that, I’m quite sure the P are working hard behind the scenes putting together/preparing case for a potential trial. I’m sure AJ is also working hard and will do his best to ensure his clients rights are protected. As is known, LE/P investigations are ongoing as cases progress, right up until trial in some cases.
On another note, I’ve learned that CA has “Lying in wait” law and *IF* LE/P has or does uncover evidence that NR was LIW to murder his parents in addition to any other evidence of premeditation they may have, imo nullifies NGRI. Lying in Wait is very serious convincing evidence towards premeditation as shows malice aforethought & intent and is considered aggravating circumstances. If P does have those kind of “goods”, will work in their favor if the case does go to trial and imo blows a NGRI defense out of the water, so to speak.
As most of us know and imo worth repeating, Insanity is an extremely high legal bar to clear/meet with burden on the defendant/D to prove that at the time of the crime, they didn’t know right from wrong or understand the harm their actions would cause/caused.
While clearly something is wrong in the brain/wiring so to speak of someone that commits cold blooded murder, I’m not convinced NR has schizophrenia and even if he does, it doesn’t automatically mean he was insane at the time of murdering his parents i.e., had a psychotic break with reality, delusional, and/or hearing voices with command hallucinations aka voices in his head telling or ordering him to kill his parents. Those kind of things/Insanity needs to be proven in a court of law by the D.
LE/P hasn’t said or released too much info publicly and good on them for protecting the integrity of their investigation. The public doesn’t have the right to know everything LE/P has amassed against a defendant prior to plea deal or trial. Having said that, *IF* early reporting r/t NR ambushed his parents in their sleep and fled the scene to a hotel is true, appears to me NR knew and understood what he was doing. And again, LE also may have uncovered concrete evidence of premeditation to further show NR planned and knew what he was doing. We just don’t know what all evidence LE/P has. All we can do is speculate.
Lastly, imo *IF* a plea deal isn’t reached between the two parties and case goes to trial, considering AJ is an experienced, intelligent, competent, highly skilled defense attorney who was once a Prosecutor (a benefit imo), LE/P needs to dot all their i’s and cross all their t’s before going toe-to-toe with AJ in trial court. If they made
or make any mistakes in their investigative process such as with the gathering and handling of evidence etc, AJ can and most definitely will expose it at trial.
Put it this way, LE/P had better be sure to have dotted and crossed everything, are organized, methodical and ready to bring their “A” game to go up against “A” Defense Attorney AJ.
IMO if convicted at a future trial,
NR will be sentenced to prison for LWOP and receive MH treatment while incarcerated.
For those interested, providing link to CA’s Lying in Wait explanation and elements P has to meet and prove to be able to be successful adding as aggravating circumstances.
A lying in wait first-degree murder in California refers to a situation where someone waits for their victim to kill them in an ambush-style surprise attack.
www.cronisraelsandstark.com
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