“We thought it was important they get a sense of the space, whether what the district attorney says happened could have happened. That's really important for us, to be able to show the jurors that what they saw in court is not necessarily what the space looks like.”
“What our experts tell us happened ... is that at some point Kathleen fell backward and hit her head. She lay bleeding, gets up, steps into the pool of blood, slips and hits her head again ... She bled out.”
“Our position is that he had absolutely nothing to do with it. It was an accident. It happened while he was [outside] the house. When you listen to that 911 tape, you can come away with nothing but a man in anguish at finding his wife in a pool of blood at the bottom of a staircase.”
“When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me; it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in the justice system, in human beings, in my abilities and judgement; and in my sense of reality. It just blew me away emotionally and psychologically.”
“These attorneys speaking out - they feel a need to defend their clients. Ethics rules (in North Carolina) allow for that. I think any criminal attorney would not be serving their client's interests if they did not speak out.”
