Toddler's Hot Car Death

apprenticeprof
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 04:30:09 +0000

But again, why would he have done it? We’re talking about cold-blooded, premeditated murder here, not a crime of passion. In most cases of premeditated murder I’ve heard of, absent an obvious pathology on the part of the killer, there seems to be a pretty clear motive. I don’t think the state established that the sexting was enough of one, and without a motive, I don’t think I could have convicted on intentional murder without more of a smoking gun. Although it is VERY hard to believe that that drive would have been enough time to forget a toddler, or that nothing would have jogged his memory during the day.

I agree I wouldn’t have wanted to be on the jury.