They need to be able to consult attorneys with death penalty experience however the public defenders office provides or arranges for them to come on board if needed.
Ridiculous in this case as it's just another example of trying to get the accused to confess-which they are never going to do-or simply scare them with the death penalty so they will deal. Attorney John Herbison-a folk hero to so many here-has the experience in the death penalty scoffed( or laughed) at the suggestion in his interview.
I have begun to get somewhat infuriated at the insidious attitude of some here. If you don't know anything about this area, or it's people, then refrain from making sexist and insulting comments.
First off Decatur County has around 20,000 residents with that growing during the summer with A1a workers and so on. Like all of Tennessee there are more women than men so that leaves around 10,500 women or so in the county. The census shows that 2,000 are under the age of 30. I would say that easily a quarter of that number is attractive enough to get noticed. So, now in Decatur county, you have almost 500 pretty girls.
Perhaps people can lay off the 'she is so pretty that everyone knew her' garbage along with the never ending drone that Parsons is a small town like Mayberry, North Carolina in which everyone knows the movement of everyone else-especially the only pretty girl in the entire county.
No disrespect but the victim was extremely short and thin with bleached blond hair. She belongs in the 500 for sure but no different from any other girl in the county.
The discovery process is now in it's 14th month with no end in site.
You don't need much experience in these cases to see that the forensics evidence is weak or non existent because if it was definite then this process would have been over long ago.
And how do you know the evidence is weak? Every death penalty case I have ever read about or watched the trial took several years to come to trial after an arrest had been made. Name me a death penalty case that went to trial in months of the arrest? Example of a DP trial: Travis Alexander from Arizona was murdered by Arias in 2008. She was arrested for his murder approximately a month later in July, 2008 and it did not go to trial until 2013 iirc and the sentencing was completed in 2014 or it may have been 2015. Guy Heinz Jr. in Georgia who murdered 8 family members in 2009 did not go to trial until 2013. Both of those defendants were found guilty BARD based on an overwhelming amount of evidence. And I could list case after case that were death penalty cases that took from 3-4 years and even longer to come to trial. Every one that I can remember the defendant was found guilty and many of them given death at sentencing. So I don't agree with your assumption when you say it would have been over a long time ago. It wouldn't. In fact it is a known fact that death penalty cases take much longer to come to trial. Additional discovery will continue to come in as it always does. In the Cesar Lauren murder trial the forensic results for the murder weapon he used didn't come back until 17 days before his trial began.
Maybe it would behoove you if you asked the folk hero you say you know how a death penalty case works and how long it usually takes before they go to trial. Surely a defense attorney would never lie about such a thing (LOL) when even the common layperson right here at WS knows that DP cases don't go to trial lightning fast. They all drag on for years. And its for sure neither of these defendants upon arrest demanded a speedy trial which is their constitutional right to do so of course. Many death penalty cases are long and laborious because of more hearings and motions to delay....delay. Most of the delays I have seen come from the defense side. They are hoping the potential jury pool will forget the heinousness that was done to Holly Bobo by these three but it wont happen. It never does but they delay hoping to get a different result I suppose. The TBI has said publicly that this was the most high profile case they have ever had in TN.
And the other death penalty cases did not have a DA who wasn't reelected like this case nor did they have a newly elected DA who got into a tiff with a state police agency and recused themselves which led to another ADA being assigned to the case. The defense actually likes all of these delays. It means the case has to start over each time. Its a lot better in jail than a maximum secure prison or on death row and the defendants and lawyers know it.
I find your remarks about the murder victim very snarky and condescending. All I see is someone determined to put Holly down, even in death, in such a trivial way by demeaning her looks. I tell you what, I really don't care what your opinion of Holly's looks are ...so have at the mean spirited putdown of a young woman who was brutally murdered. It must make you feel better to do this immature and childish putdown is all I can figure out. Personally it reeks of pettiness and jealousy of a murdered young woman, imo.
However; you do not determine what beauty is or is not for anyone else here. So perhaps, you can 'layoff' (your language..not mine) telling others what to do and how we are to think of Holly's looks. Pleeze....of course you meant to disrespect her and you chose to do so. You could have said nothing mean spirited against Holly but you couldn't hold it back, imo. Strange. Very strange.
I, for one, found her very beautiful with gorgeous deep blue eyes and silky skin. She had a wholesomeness about her. She looked friendly and kind. I do not find her thin... which I suppose you are implying skinny... since the entire description you have given seems to be nothing but derogatory comments about her. She had a very nice figure and was petite. No, she wasn't as tall as a giraffe but neither are millions of other beautiful petite girls and women in our county.
I usually get very sad when a poster purposefully tries to be mean spirited toward a murder victim but in this particular instance I feel anger this time
because in the end the truth is SHE WAS THE ONE these creatures selected to be beaten, repeatedly raped, murdered and thrown away like trash. I do believe they targeted Holly because of her beauty and because she was someone that wouldn't have ever given them the time a day IF she had had a choice in the matter.
And there isn't one piece of evidence to support your assumption they asked for the death penalty only to get them to confess. Bull. There is no evidence the DA has even talked to any of these perverted.... twisted... depraved...evil meth heads about confessing. That sounds just like something a defense attorney would say trying to dismiss the weight of a death penalty case. I have read nothing that has shown me the DA has even considered a plea deal with any of the three POSs that are going to trial. Do you have a link I have missed?
