Re: the OP
It took the jury twenty minutes to find him guiilty of capital murder. The went in to deliberate when I got up to go to work, and as I was stepping out of the shower they announced a verdict!
They are still in the punishment phase, though, because in Texas the finding of guilt and the punishment parts of the trial are seperate.
His defense team put on no case - no opening arguments, no witnesses, no closing arguments. They say they are merely trying to save his life. In other words, there is no defense for murdering your own daughters, so the less he says the better.
They did not bring up insanity because he has no history of psychosis. It was expected that they would bring up the fact that he is bi-polar as mitigating circumstances in the punishment phase, (which, if the jury buys it, would be the difference between life in prison and death) but since the news was already over when I got home from work, I don't know if they have (or if the defense has even had their turn yet).
It took the jury twenty minutes to find him guiilty of capital murder. The went in to deliberate when I got up to go to work, and as I was stepping out of the shower they announced a verdict!
They are still in the punishment phase, though, because in Texas the finding of guilt and the punishment parts of the trial are seperate.
His defense team put on no case - no opening arguments, no witnesses, no closing arguments. They say they are merely trying to save his life. In other words, there is no defense for murdering your own daughters, so the less he says the better.
They did not bring up insanity because he has no history of psychosis. It was expected that they would bring up the fact that he is bi-polar as mitigating circumstances in the punishment phase, (which, if the jury buys it, would be the difference between life in prison and death) but since the news was already over when I got home from work, I don't know if they have (or if the defense has even had their turn yet).
