There was a lot of discussion about this on the stltoday.com site this afternoon. A lot of it boiled down to the usual :slapfight: that you'll see in the comments there, but one poster did say something that made me think... it was along the lines of this (not a quote here but a paraphrase):
TL having to fly up and miss a day or two of work probably didn't affect too many lives. There was someone to cover her shift at wherever she's working now. However, JMM had scheduled a conference in Hampton VA for April 28 -30. There were perhaps hundreds of people waiting to see her this weekend.
Now, I did go look up JM's schedule, and apparently this conference is free to attend.
http://www.joycemeyer.org/events/GenericEvent.aspx?event=hampton2011 So it's not as if JMM would have had to refund hundreds of people's money. But I figured it was one more piece of info that we could put in the contemplation pot, at least.
:truce:
At any rate, since they decided not to pursue a claim against JMM, her testimony apparently went mostly toward supporting premeditation on CC's part. Apparently a video depo was acceptable to the prosecution team for proving premeditation, so I guess I'm ok with it too.
Again, :truce: and wow it's hard to type when you've been sitting on your hands so long!