And The Trial Continues......

Each day of the Roseboro murder trial is revealing more and more about the chain of events leading up to the death of Jan Roseoboro.
Mr. Steadman is doing a remarkable job of leading the jury along a path of information that is cohesive and straightforward.
He has much to deal with.
He has the circumstantial platform to deal with to be sure.
There is no smoking gun, as of today. But there is smoke.
I really did like his analogy about circumstantial evidence and the fallen snow.
You don't have to see the snow falling to know that has, indeed, snowed.
And he and the State of Pennsylvania believe that no one had to physically see Mike Roseboro beat, strangle and drown Jan to know that he did it.
Mr. Steadman has to accompany each and every juror down a path that leads to only one conclusion. There can be no other explanation.
We all make assumptions every day. In some very mundane situations and in some very serious ones also.
We are all learning much about Mike and his behavior up to and including today.
We know about his professed and taped love for Angela Funk. We also know that unless he had fallen out of love with her since April of this year, he is a liar.
He is wearing his wedding ring.
In April, he is taped telling Angie that he loves her. And today he is wearing a wedding band that Jan placed on his finger. Hmmmm....now which is an expression of the truth?
It's much the same with the case of the renewal of vows.
He was going to profess his undying love for Jan last summer. And he was wondering how Angie should style her hair for their wedding. Hmmmmm...now which is an expression of the truth?
Mr. Sodomsky is apparently going to do everything in his power to minmize Mike's relationship with Angie. How on earth is he going to be able to battle his own client?
His own client is his biggest hurdle. His client is actually the enemy of his own case.
I can't imagine the spot Mr. Sodomsky is in. He took the case and is obligated to defend Mike to the very best of his ability. He's a fantastic lawyer, no doubt about that.
But how can he pass the affair off as simply a few rolls in the hay when his client is still telling Angie that he loves her. And he's dim enough to do it a setting in which it could be taped and played for a jury?
I would be livid and disgusted. It's a bit late in the game for Mike to have to find another attorney but I don't think this is going to be a highlight of Mr. Sodomsky's career.
If he can gain a not guilty verdict, though, this may be the best case of his career after all.
Mike is playing for the prosecution's team. He's shooting himself in the foot at most turns.
Everyone is entitled to a learned and professional defense. Even the guilty.
Mike is entitled to the best defense possible, and he has that in Mr. Sodomsky.
But how hard can this be for his lawyer to stand in open court and face that jury when Mike himself takes his own case three steps back every day?
By allowing himself to taped in those phone calls with Angie Funk, and by stating that he still loves her, Mike has shown the jury that he wants Angie AT ALL COSTS.
He has no self control. Not even to save himself from a sentence of life with no possibility of parole.
How many people now believe, truly believe, that Mike wasn't going to do whatever he had to to be with Angie? Or to at least free himself up to be able to be with her?
Those taped phone calls in April of this year are a lynch pin.
It shows the jury how Mike feels NOW.
I wonder if that wedding band is a bit tight on his finger.
It certainly was a noose around his neck last July......