07-07-2011, 08:49 AM
You may well be right, and Justice would demand that she be convicted. But Justice resides in Heaven, and pending our translation there, we have to content ourselves with the by-ways of Common Law, and the rules of evidence. According to the Wiki article, two lawyers in succession offered excuses to withdraw, which quite often is a sign that they simply do not believe the story they are being given, and feel unable therefore to give sound advice. I must have missed the bit about the 'dream team'.
I was vaguely uneasy at the point where the father and some guy at the compound? both thought that the boot of the car smelt of decomposing body. It may well have stunk; but how many people could know that smell? Circumstantial evidence can be used to convict, but it must be very compelling. Here, it seems to say that the child was killled, but leaves open the possibility that others did the deed, perhaps making deliberate and successful attempts to frame this woman.
It is very sad, and I'm afraid it passes my understanding why anyone would want to kill a child, unless that person were seriously deranged. I find I have to force myself to read about, or listen to, such stuff, as a matter of duty somehow.
I was vaguely uneasy at the point where the father and some guy at the compound? both thought that the boot of the car smelt of decomposing body. It may well have stunk; but how many people could know that smell? Circumstantial evidence can be used to convict, but it must be very compelling. Here, it seems to say that the child was killled, but leaves open the possibility that others did the deed, perhaps making deliberate and successful attempts to frame this woman.
It is very sad, and I'm afraid it passes my understanding why anyone would want to kill a child, unless that person were seriously deranged. I find I have to force myself to read about, or listen to, such stuff, as a matter of duty somehow.