
Originally Posted by
Irving
No, we didn't know anything about the Scientology stuff until we got home and read the articles.
I thought she looked pretty dumb and was openly groaning during her closing argument.
The defense took the angle that since the police officer admitted to contaminating the scene, and that how he didn't know how one of the bullets ended up where it did, that there was a great chance that any scene diagrams are incorrect as well. That was her whole angle. It was mostly well presented, but toward the end she (defense counsel) really started pulling at straws and showing her own ignorance of firearm stuff.
I'm just telling this to point out that what you said is true, and they tried to get a lesser charge in this case based off of potentially incorrect investigation and assumptions by the prosecutors based on those investigation results.