Just now got through reading all of todays' posts. Was just sitting here letting all of this ugliness sink in. I'm tired and ready for bed ..when it hit me...
YY's Mother, and family now KNOW...they've suspected it...dreaded it...hoped it wasn't so..OMG..I want so bad to just hug them. And apologize for the monsters that exist. This will for sure be a restless night for me. But for them?? So Gdammned f$$#kin unfair!!
Ya know..you hear about murders everyday in our world. And as bad as most of them are...they at least follow a script, of sorts. A lover's argument goes too far...some punk sticks up a gas station and shoots someone..guy catches his wife cheatin...yada yada...But this one? He killed her..just to kill her..didn't even know her...I dunno..maybe I'm just too naive, but I just can't wrap my head around this. I'm not normally all that religious, but tonight I will pray for the Zhanng family. I'm with Kitty on this part...BC is gonna be convicted, maybe even sentenced to die..but that's all secondary . My concerns will be the Zhanngs now.
What makes me livid is that his defense has known for two years that he did it, delayed at every possible point as much as they could, attempted AGAIN moments before opening statements commenced to delay indefinitely because of the civil suit being filed -then the moment it was their turn......... first thing out of their mouth was "he did it." They tortured the poor Zhang family for
two years -and attempted to prolong the torture for and indefinite period with their last-second motion. Tortured them by prolonging the period over which they had to wait for answers as to what happened to their daughter. They had not heard anything about how she was killed. Only that LE believed she was dead. Her mother was
still holding out hope that she had somehow survived. I understand the need to try and build a mitigating case to spare his life, but at some point, the delays just come off as denial and cruelty to her family. They spent months arguing over aspects of a mental health mitigation defense for the penalty phase -only to throw it away in a few days because BC didn't want the government's doctors to examine him in rebuttal; and bear in mind, this was after the Shadid had granted them
another continuance of a couple of months because
they had screwed up in trying to procure another mental health expert to examine him.
I know they are entitled to pursue a vigorous defense of him, and to pull out all the stops to try and spare his life, but at some point, it just comes off as cruel to her family. None of this shows a shred of something that might provide mitigation: evidence that he is sorry for what he has done and what he put her, her family and her friends through for the past two years -and onward for years to come.
This suggests to me one thing. BC doesn't want the death penalty. He wants life in prison, without having to apologize for what he has done, and without explaining what he did with her remains, and giving them to her family if that is possible.
I hope this strategy backfires on them, and the jury sees that he has been playing stall and delay as long as possible, and that it pisses them off. Sadly, I have a sick feeling that there will be one or two suckers on the jury who will fall for it or some other mitigating argument
