Recent content by Cailin Rua

I think this is where the judge really made a mistake in allowing the defense to “instruct “ the jury on points of law. Sure you can bring up that you don’t think the prosecution has established X, Y, or Z, but he shouldn’t have been allowed to tell the jury what they “had to have” for a conviction.

I'm not sure the life insurance was the primary motive. The jury will have seen the Gerber Life commercials and might not think it's very strange or telling that there was insurance. They will probably be more interested in the internet searches.

As far as the accident--we have one of those open foyers with the railings, obviously not as grand as the Coronado mansion, but I walked out of the bathroom after a 3 minute pee break once to see my then five year old son standing on the OUTSIDE edge of the railing upstairs, inching along. I...

They always make notes on testimony so that they can address, clarify, or try to neutralize on redirect. Noticing that after that video plays and gets to the screen with the stills from similar videos, there is one with Barbie and Ken??! (That first part was directed at lewcch)

It is so weird but I've found that clients who are heavily narcissistic tend to use big words inappropriately or pronounce them incorrectly...and it's just not that hard to look in a dictionary and find that, say, "casing" a neighborhood is not the same as "canvassing" it.

Did you notice her throat-slashing motions, or do you think people are just reading something into her weird way of moving her hands?

I thought he was very restrained in the book, didn't really criticize anyone except Arias.

People murder their "precious children" with distressing frequency.

At least Juan going after her on the stand was entertaining! I do understand his position. Wilmott's too. She's the client and they work for her, boom. I think Nurmi would have been more effective with a less drawn-out, crawling style of questioning and I wouldn't want him defending me b/c I...

If he had gone with just BPD and tried to prove diminished responsibility, he would have achieved the same result most likely without boring the world to tears for months and making himself a laughingstock. I guess if your client insists it was self defense and is so deluded as to think someone...

I think she had been thinking about it for a while in an abstract sort of way but something triggered her that night, probably a fight with Darin. If she had gone with a "post-partum depression + diet pill rage" defense she might have at least stayed off death row.

If Darin did it Darlie wouldn't in a million years have gone to Death Row to protect him. Especially if they were not on good terms anyway.

I'm a licensed mental health therapist in my state and one odd thing that I have observed about my clients who I thought had narcissistic personalities was that they would use words incorrectly. Frequently they were big words but sometimes they were just the wrong words. And you could tell the...

Willmott is taking a pee! Alert!

She would have run through any money he made in no time. Doubtful that she would have been making any of her own.