Stephan...thank you. It's overwhelming, isn't it? Thank you for all your hard work.
I would like to second that. Thank you Stephan for all your time and effort on this.
Stephan...thank you. It's overwhelming, isn't it? Thank you for all your hard work.
Stephan...thank you. It's overwhelming, isn't it? Thank you for all your hard work.
I can imagine a million fairytales and I would wager that most will be horror stories, based upon the actions of their lawyers already, and the pain and additional heartbreak heaped upon innocent grieving people.Can you imagine Jason's autopsy pictures and crime scene photos being explained as a proper response to DV that consists of a threat and a chokehold...even if that were the truth?
"You are allowed by law to do ALL this"... is that what we have come to?
<modsnip>JC visited his doctors often and I’m<modsnip> sure he was a big boy and would have asked for the real thing Viagra or its other alternatives. And why would JM be looking for such when he was in his way out of the relationship and there was no one else and he had a heart condition unknowing the effect this would have on it.So the theory that's being pressed here once again is that there is an element of sexual aggression that triggered events that night....while I respect your right to have differing views, you have consistently raised the theory that Jason took the Trazadone for erectile dysfunction. I find it highly unusual that if Molly no longer wanted to have sex with Jason, and he was no longer capable of doing so under his own steam, that SHE would be the one to fill a prescription to aid him in that department. Perhaps a look at the actual evidence we have had provided over the last few days would be beneficial.
<modsnip> JC visited his doctors often and I’m <modsnip>sure he was a big boy and would have asked for the real thing Viagra or its other alternatives. And why would JM be looking for such when he was in his way out of the relationship and there was no one else and he had a heart condition unknowing the effect this would have on it.
With all due respect, it doesn't matter who or what started the fight, if there was one. It doesn't matter what triggered this. It doesn't matter what the state of their marriage was. The only thing that matters are that a son, father, brother, husband has been horrificly slaughtered, his skull repeatedly beaten in. The only questions that need to be answered are...did Tom Martens and his daughter Molly, who have confessed, ...have a right to do this killing and...why didn't they stop?
For the substantial evidence true but it would be nice to actually know what did start it off, where was that spark that led to an inferno
This is exactly what I suggested earlier. Imagine that?
We are curious but what started it should not matter. Let's say that the defense is telling the truth. He grabbed her by the neck, he made a threat.
Did that entitle them, receiving no visible wounds themselves, to pound him up against doors, up against walls, on the floor, multiple fractures layered on each other, congealing pools of blood, broken nose, dents in walls where they missed him...
Was that okay? Do we say something he did deserved ALL that?
Really?
There's an excuse? Like what?
Do we believe that an Incredible, unrelenting amount of horror was necessary when there is no sign that he fought back in any way? No sign that he landed a blow? When there is Evidence now that any one of those layered concussions would cause unconsciousness? Evidence now that some of the blood spatter is near the floor?
Is there something Martens can say. that started this that we will say..."Oh, okay, no problem." "Oh he didn't let go...well, then smash his skull to pieces..follow thru doors, corner him againstwalls. Yeah, we are good with that."
Do we, as humans, care why this started?
I don't.
I care that...IT DID NOT STOP.
We did discuss this before with people's opinions varying. Personally, i feel it looks worse for the Martens that he was found naked, a fully dressed person would be much more likely to take part in an argument. IMO, a naked person, not so much.
All IMO
Is there anyone you love in this world that you would defend and give your life for? TM obviously feels he was in a fight for his life when and if he killed Jason defending his daughter. I mean, He's not exactly the murderous type. I have trouble believing he planned this. That TM couldn't stop hitting him means to me that he might have been scared of Jason and didn't understand why he was acting he way he was. Someone he had known and trusted. No disrespect intended but It's like JC turned into the Incredible Hulk for no reason. I wonder what was really going on with him? Doesn't seem like anyone really knows, except for maybe Molly. IMO
Well I don't know that and have a hard time believing that about TM.<modsnip> Nothing such, he was a big teddy bear, a gentle giant. We all know the person in this picture who was prone to violent episodes.
IMHO
Is there anyone you love in this world that you would defend and give your life for? TM obviously feels he was in a fight for his life when and if he killed Jason defending his daughter. I mean, He's not exactly the murderous type. I have trouble believing he planned this. That TM couldn't stop hitting him means to me that he might have been scared of Jason and didn't understand why he was acting he way he was. Someone he had known and trusted. No disrespect intended but It's like JC turned into the Incredible Hulk for no reason. I wonder what was really going on with him? Doesn't seem like anyone really knows, except for maybe Molly. IMO
Tom wasn't in the fight of his life because he received no injuries. Nor did his daughter receive any injuries. This was not a "fight" but an execution. This was NOT three bloodied and beaten combatants, and one died. This is someone with his brains literally beaten out...followed and cornered from room to room.
If SM had called the police that night, and they had interupted this scene before anybody died, do you believe they would have arrested Tom or Jason?
If Jason, would they have found him guilty of a crime for which he should be executed? Would our system require he die in the heinous way he died?
You and I do not know Jason or Tom Martens or Molly Martens. So we can attribute good motives and bad ones anyway we want. But feelings aren't evidence. And the evidence says overkill. I guess you have excuses for that and I don't. That's allowed on this Board. But I might ask you, is there anyone in your life that you love, that you would want to die this way?
The evidence we heard this week goes to the kind of society we want to live in. I fear a society where we invent excuses for heinous violence like this.
TM did not "give his life" for his daughter. He didn't get a scratch. He TOOK a life for his daughter. Or is throwing away his life to cover for that raging, sick woman that drove Maginn to write his book. Either way, we are a society of laws. Neither one of them, by law, had a right to do what they did.
We have put in place many options for abused women with no resources. Molly had many resources, many options. Execution with such extreme violence was not an option we should want to find excuses for....because that's a slippery slope. Most murderers feel aggrieved. So they shoot up their workplace, or a school, or kill the other woman or the nasty boss.
When individuals are permitted to decide who lives or dies based on their feelings..we are the Wild,Wild west. When we make their feelings more important than a human life or a lawful society, that's a dangerous path.
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