Thanks!!!
I think they most likely have the goods to convict first time - but there is concern over numerous issues that just one or two jurors could balk.
If they seat an emotional jury - it will convict. Not so emotional - who knows.
I have my fingers crossed that any jury, emotional or otherwise, can put all the facts (or even lack thereof) together much as the jury that sat on the Hans Reiser trial did.
There wasn't much forensic evidence presented at that trial (a tiny speck of blood on a pillar in his house & on a sleeping bag in his car), but there was much in the way of circumstantial evidence (including the outlandish incredulous lies that Hans told & his very 'hinky' behavior after his estranged wife's disappearance). He also didn't help his case any with his courtroom outbursts. They didn't even have a body when he was convicted, and as noted in an article @ cnet.com:
"Jurors had to choose between Reiser's strained version of events and the plain conclusion that he was lying."
Apparently, they chose the latter. Hans Reiser faces a sentence of 25 years to life in prison.
Well, he was facing 25-life for FDM, but a few days after the trial, he led police to Nina's body. It was about a 1/2 mile from his home, just off a jogging trail.
He got 15-25 years at sentencing.
Hopefully jurors' can come to this conclusion, so succinctly stated in a comment to an article on sfgate.com:
"Murder happens when a person lacks the strength needed to resist their rage, and not because that person has the guts to carry out the morally reprehensible."
It's obvious by the 14-Aug-08 jail visit that KC is capable of raging.
IMO, KC's going down.