CrimLaw

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Roundup of Murder Cases:

You drive someone over to a house where that person kills the house's owner with a sword. Describing that as "a big oopsy" just isn't an adequate defense.

Terry Nichols has had 1 of his 162 murder charges dropped because the prosecution did not give enough notice.

In Durham the prosecution seems to have a strategy of putting the jurors to sleep at the beginning of the trial with all sorts of boring, incomprehensible financial evidence which is looking pretty contrived. The prosecution's witness selectively entered some income and excluded other income. He even testified that when the man supposedly killed his wife to get money the two of them were worth $1.4 million. Not much there to provide a motive for killing your wife.

The judge in the Scott Peterson case has ruled that the Defense can view the autopsy and some photographs from another case wherein a young, pregnant lady was killed and dumped in the Bay. However, he will not let the Defense see the actual investigative files.

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