ColonelMustard
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With all due respect, I'm aware of OP's privileged life and home AND I find it believable that he still felt paranoid...witness his past behavior fearing intruders at his gated home.
Again with all due respect, no, I actually don't accept that a few posters here who live where this case took place necessarily have a better sense of what an entire nation is thinking or believing just because they live there, anymore than I believe my own views on cases represent the US.
I prefer to read/listen and evaluate for myself, and I trust my own research skills, logic, and years now of following trials, posting and participating here.
I can understand if some or many SA's or others anywhere else "struggle" to believe OP's account. I don't believe parts of it either. I just don't view every witness and every piece of evidence through an a priori assumption of guilt and bad character. JMO.
I don't feel that defense witnesses are acting from places of guilt or bad character. While I don't believe them, it's not because I think they are morally/ethically corrupt.
Throughout this trial I've asked myself: "In all honesty, CM, what would you have done in such a situation?" Maybe not anything that different than what they have.
If I was really close to a brother I loved, or to a neighbor I liked who had been kind to me, or a hero who rose to the top from the bottom, I can't say that my immediate actions, in that instant, wouldn't be driven by those biases.
They probably would be, as no facts would yet be known. Later, and with more information, I might regret it ...but maybe not, because that was my role, the character I played in this Greek tragedy. If the former, I'd just rationalize it so I could live with myself.
In the end, there but for the grace of god go I.