What a stand up guy......
Read all of this sillyness here.Did Brad Reay brutally and premeditatedly stab his 41-year-old wife Tamera five times in the back of her shoulder, 19 times across her chest and then slit her throat?
Or is it possible that the Reay's 12-year-old daughter committed the violent act while apparently sleepwalking, as defense attorney Timothy Rensch said during opening statements Wednesday morning?and..
"Something very bad happened," Rensch said, "something that no family should ever have happen. It was horrific and terrible.
"Keep and open mind - (the girl) killed her mother. It may seem unbelievable, but truth is stranger than fiction."
According to Rensch's opening statement, Brad Reay will testify that he was awakened in the middle of the night by a noise. He thought it was the cat and went to see what had happened. Reay couldn't find anything, including his daughter, who was not in her room, the bathroom, or the kitchen. Then he thought maybe she went downstairs to sleep with her mother, so he went to see.
Reay's testimony will be that when he entered the room where Tami Reay slept regularly, their daughter was standing beside his wife's bed. He asked what she was doing and got no response.
He entered and then saw the blood, all over Tami Reay, all over the bed and all over his daughter."What have you done?" Reay will say he asked frantically several times, each time getting no response. "She seemed catatonic," Reay apparently told Rensch.
Yes, it looks like we're going to be asked to believe the father's story that the 12 year old Daughter brutally sleep-murdered her mother, and Dad was only protecting his daughter by covering up the crime.
What a stand up guy.
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What the guy lacks in morals and ethics he makes up for in creativity. That poor girl.
Anon 11:19 We can and should reserve judgement until all evidence is presented but this defense is laughable. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Claiming the sun rose in the east on any given day doesn't require much proof. Claiming it rose in the west on a particular day requires considerable evidence.
But I do know that we give the defendant the benefit of the doubt until conclusive proof is offered otherwise.
Of course, if you ever want to ignore the constitution, stop by the SDWC for some drive-by, vigilante justice.
Give me a break, PP, et al.
Come to think of it, we should even consider making that procedure part of our constitution, rather than trial-by-blog. We could call it something fancy, like the Sixth Amendment.
Damn her! I'm just glad there are lawyers out there like Rensch whose integrity and ethics are enough to take a case like this and put the blame where it belongs.
I think the little girl should get the chair.
"Prosecutors said Reay also tried to frame the Feb. 8, 2006, murder on his wife's lover, an assistant manager at the Pierre Kmart where she worked part-time."
Does anyone around Pierre know anything about this?
Stupid ass.