I'm ALL for a defence team fighting their bums off for a fair trial. I'm ALL for a defense team fighting tooth and nail to ensure the correct level of justice and verdict is applied to their client. Hell, I'm ALL for a defense team using every skill they collectively possess to show a jury that there is reasonable doubt IF there in fact is!
What I cannot comfortably sit with is a defense team who has a client that has ADMITTED in a court of law that he slinked into a house full of young innocent people in the dead of night, whilst they lay in their beds and proceeded to savagely slaughter them with stabs, slashes and brutal beatings, and despite that admittance and confession, the defense team still put their pen to paper and demand that their admitted murderous guilty felon of a client shouldn't have to pay reimbursement to the families of the young people he hacked to bits for their out of pocket expenses that THEY SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAD TO PAY IF HE HADN'T HAVE MURDERED THEIR BABIES!!!
Just no.
There's being a damn good defense team - which I massively admire and believe that everyone is entitled to - and there is this.
It's sick and shame on AT and her cronies.
ETA - I don't know the full ins and outs of the whole g.f.m.'s and whatnot but if I recall correctly, the bulk of the fundraising talk was regarding the Goncalves and the fundraising that they acquired which I'm not sure how was spent... But what about the Chapins for example? I'm fairly sure they didn't accept any fundraising directly and instead pointed people towards the charity for Ethan. They will have certainly have had out of pocket expenses for travel etc... Not that I think they would accept a single penny from anything to do with that ghoul, but it's the principle! The felon should pay for what he has done - by time locked in a prison being tormented by fellow lags, by financial means... By every mean. He should pay for his crimes.
MOO