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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Real life murder trial
Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 20:03:38 -0000 (UTC)
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In a fictional murder trial on tv, we've gotten used to portrayals of
absurd trial errors that might lead to disbarments or the judge being
overturned on appeal, really obvious stuff that are not regular errors
in real life trials.

This is about an ongoing trial.

A woman was shot and killed by a man. He was a police officer. She was
the mother of two; he was the father of their infant child. They didn't
live together. She went to him home to confront him.

According to evidence in the record, she just happened to find a gun in
a laundry basket while she was doing laundry a couple of days before she
was killed. She told a friend that if she's found dead, then her
boyfriend did it.

She was angry at him because she thought she found a court filing that
said he was married, but she misinterpreted it. She went to confront him
about it. They fought and argued for hours and hours.

No one may have been angry enough to kill at the beginning but clearly
that was not the case by the end.

Now, the prosecution case is based on the series of lies he told to
cover up what happened.

The defense? He's arguing self defense. She brought the gun. She was
going to kill him. He killed her first.

His explanation for the attempted coverup is that he thought his self
defense claim wouldn't be believed.

If this had been tv, then the defense's theory of the crime would have
consisted of insults and accusations against prosecution witnesses and
claims made by the defense that are not facts in evidence or just shit
the criminal lawyer made up.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/05/14/did-a-chicago-police-officer-kill-his-girlfriend-in-self-defense-a-jury-will-decide/