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I just hope for truth and justice here. Even now, all these months later, just reading this snippet makes me cry again for the unthinkable family tragedies surrounding this vicious murder. Wish I could find God somewhere in all this horror. Maybe . . . one day.

It's natural, I suppose, to wish you could do something to help, to heal, everybody involved. You can't. You're helpless.

Stuck, finally, with blind faith and hope that God . . . Karma . . . Something . . . enacts justice for every life brutally snuffed . . . whatever "justice" is.

Blind faith, I guess, though true for me all my life . . . that every road, no matter what or how prolonged . . . turns and leads eventually to Peace.

Woah - So his mom and he think the defense team is doing a poor job? Well, maybe they are getting what they are paying for !!!

Like - If you wanted your car fixed and you expected the mechanic to do it for free... he'd sort of look at you strange... same with the grocery store and the drug store.

My experinece has been (and god knows, I've hired lots of lawyers) that if the judge knows you actually went out and hired somebody to represent you, as in invested capital and all, you usually get a more sympathetic ear from the court.

Maybe the Vance clan could quit putting down Schiltz Malt long enough to pool their funds and actually purchase the services of an attorney. It would be a radical, but worthy, idea.

Woah - So his mom and he think the defense team is doing a poor job? Well, maybe they are getting what they are paying for !!!

Like - If you wanted your car fixed and you expected the mechanic to do it for free... he'd sort of look at you strange... same with the grocery store and the drug store.

My experinece has been (and god knows, I've hired lots of lawyers) that if the judge knows you actually went out and hired somebody to represent you, as in invested capital and all, you usually get a more sympathetic ear from the court.

Maybe the Vance clan could quit putting down Schiltz Malt long enough to pool their funds and actually purchase the services of an attorney. It would be a radical, but worthy, idea.

Woah - So his mom and he think the defense team is doing a poor job? Well, maybe they are getting what they are paying for !!!

Like - If you wanted your car fixed and you expected the mechanic to do it for free... he'd sort of look at you strange... same with the grocery store and the drug store.

My experinece has been (and god knows, I've hired lots of lawyers) that if the judge knows you actually went out and hired somebody to represent you, as in invested capital and all, you usually get a more sympathetic ear from the court.

Maybe the Vance clan could quit putting down Schiltz Malt long enough to pool their funds and actually purchase the services of an attorney. It would be a radical, but worthy, idea.

Oops - Sorry ya'll - - - did not mean to do it thrice. My bad.

At first, I thought towerdog was just being a jerk. But you know what? After taking a dishrag to wipe off the greasy sheen of bigotry covering his comment, he's absolutely right:

If you are a wine-and-cheeser with a well-paid attorney, the judge will indeed be biased in your favor, compared to an everyday individual with a public defender.

As for something that might help, Norma, I have a suggestion: The next time someone suggests a victim of sexual assault (as has been alleged was the case with Ms. Pressly) has "lost their innocence" (as has been suggested about Ms. Pressly), tell them in no uncertain terms that you can't become guilty by being the victim of a crime, and in particular, you can't lose your "innocence" (whatever that means) by being raped.