Closing Arguments- Chase Merritt Charged W/Murder of Joseph, Summer, Gianni and Joe Jr McStay #3

[Meemaw12]

I stopped at the A's as so depressing.

I remember
Alejandro Aliva. He abducted beautiful Samantha Runion. Sexually assaulted and murdered that beautiful little girl. I hate him.

 

[gitana1]

Hopefully, for others, the lesson learned from this is even if you're innocent you should never talk to LE, or anyone else about the case.

I hope the lesson learned is don't commit murder. Anyone who is dumb enough to think murder will solve their problems will always make a mistake.

 

[Meemaw12]

Then there's David Westerfield. Have him too. Scot Peterson. So many that should be dead and still breathing,
Hate them all.

 

[citygirl]

I hope the lesson learned is don't commit murder. Anyone who is dumb enough to think murder will solve their problems will always make a mistake.

Were that easily the answer! In this life there are no deterrents for the worst of the worst. MOO.

 

[gitana1]

For me, I really don't care if he gets the death penalty. I just want him to suffer for the rest of his miserable life.

He'd die before it was imposed anyhow.

But I think he will be sentenced to death.

 

[gitana1]

or talk about them in the past tense

Lol.

 

[gitana1]

This was wonderful to watch.


IMO - his team was shocked that he got a guilty verdict.

I don't know. I don't think they were shocked by the verdict. I don't think the attorney was crying. And I don't think they felt he was innocent.

If I was convinced my client was innocent I would have an arm around his shoulder and a hand on his arm, as the verdicts were being read. I would give him a squeeze if it was bad news.

I wonder what the other attorneys think but I'm reading their body language as distancing. Even the perfunctory pat before the verdict.

 

[gitana1]

Let’s be honest Chase is the kind of person who will be blaming everybody bar himself.

MOO

100%.

 

[Spellbound]

McStay Family Murder Trial, Verdict announced 6/10/2019

 

[gitana1]

If he gets LWOP, will his life in prison be a lot different than on Death Row?

I think so. Yes. Much less isolating.

 

[Frankie Hellis]

I remember
Alejandro Aliva. He abducted beautiful Samantha Runion. Sexually assaulted and murdered that beautiful little girl. I hate him.

Yes, and when I read that, I can picture that little girl in my head exactly. That’s one that never leaves you. She was such a beautiful child.

 

[gitana1]

The whole thing is just so sad. I am unable to find joy in any of it.

True. Watching the family leave the courtroom...they've lost their loved ones forever. This is justice but doesn't do much to fill that ripped out hole.

 

[gitana1]

Yes, and when I read that, I can picture that little girl in my head exactly. That’s one that never leaves you. She was such a beautiful child.

Yes! Her mom had moved to Stanton which she felt was safer than where they had been. Her little friend was playing with her when she was grabbed. Her tears were found on his car door.

Ugh. That beautiful smile. Her mother's grief. That case never left me either.

 

[HelenK]

I don't know. I don't think they were shocked by the verdict. I don't think the attorney was crying. And I don't think they felt he was innocent.

If I was convinced my client was innocent I would have an arm around his shoulder and a hand on his arm, as the verdicts were being read. I would give him a squeeze if it was bad news.

I wonder what the other attorney think but I'm reading their body language as distancing. Even the perfunctory pat before the verdict.

I agree - especially with regard to McGee and his perfunctory pat. He definitely did not feel a thing for Merritt. Maline was expressing some kind of emotion, but towards what is debatable. The Merritt family members he'd dealt with perhaps? - although I doubt it -

 

[UndiscoveredTruth]

I don't know. I don't think they were shocked by the verdict. I don't think the attorney was crying. And I don't think they felt he was innocent.

If I was convinced my client was innocent I would have an arm around his shoulder and a hand on his arm, as the verdicts were being read. I would give him a squeeze if it was bad news.

I wonder what the other attorney think but I'm reading their body language as distancing. Even the perfunctory pat before the verdict.

Hi gitana1, (BBM) McGee did put his hand on CM's arm, as the verdicts were being read, not once, but twice!

 

[Meemaw12]

Yes, and when I read that, I can picture that little girl in my head exactly. That’s one that never leaves you. She was such a beautiful child.

There are some that never leave you, this is one for me. Still brings tears.

 

[Irish_Eyes]

Oh this verdict is SO so long overdue. The McStay and Aranda families have been through way too much. And Joey, Summer, and their sweet boys should be here to enjoy everything they've missed out on.

There was a time when I feared there would never be justice for the McStays. Never been more happy to be wrong.

 

[gitana1]

In the Jodi Arias Trial, she got up and spoke during her Penalty Phase. She was like a joke though---listing her good points---she actually brought out a t-shirt she designed, against Domestic Violence, and promising to sell them online, to earn donations to a DV charity in her name.

It was pathetic.

It was a horrible slap in the face to Travis and his family. Galls me to this day that that monster was allowed to do that.

 

[gitana1]

He didn't mean it????? WTH! I thought Maline was saying the convicted quadruple murderer was innocent! Obvs she didn't get the talking points. Wow. I am stunned. I guess on the bright said, she is admitting that he actually did the crime.

Yeah. How do you not "mean" to murder four, separate people? That takes some time. Time to reflect.

 

[gitana1]

There was a boy that looked to be 10 or 11, sitting behind the defendant. I thought it was a family member?

Yeah but minors aren't typically allowed in, family members or not.