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Originally Posted by MBates
You cannot make someone plead guilty. I don't question for a second the sincerity of anyone's feelings of anger or sympathy for the family but this is not particularly surprising.
Consider how you would feel if the accused now started calling garbage witnesses putting up a fake alibi or something like that. Would that somehow make the situation better than calling no evidence and relying on the presumption of innocence and burden of proof?
Would anyone be calling for leniency or lauding the accused as a gentleman if he had pleaded guilty and admitted to doing these things?
If he did these things, why on earth would you expect him to be kind to the family during the trial process?
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His council was put in a tough spot from the start. There is really no way they would win this trial with the evidence the Crown has against him, so they were pretty much just there to assure he received a fair trial.
They played the circumstantial evidence card where appropriate, but that is really all they could do.