So Many Questions…Such a Shaky Prosecution Case

So many questions!

I’m sitting here at my desk, going over some of my research about the Elsa Newman case. So many things raise questions about both her criminal trials. “Both?” you ask. “You mean she was tried twice?”   Yes, I mean she was tried twice. Further, she was tried twice on pretty much the same charges. The only exception I know of was the addition of a death penalty possibility in the second trial.   Aha! And now you may have another question. “How could she be tried twice on the same charges?” And another: “Isn’t that double jeopardy?”   You know, I would have thought so. But then, I’m not an attorney, I’m a retired schoolteacher. So what do I know?   Anyhow…here is my question for the day. And it’s about what people were wearing or were assumed to be wearing on the night Margery Landry broke into the house of Elsa’s ex-husband.   You see, some “knowledgeable” person or other had told the media that Elsa had threatened to dress all in black and shoot her then-husband. So, apparently, in court this came to the attention of the judge and jury and the prosecution made much of it. The prosecution pointed out that Margery Landry, who broke into the house of “AS,” now Elsa’s ex-husband and found him in bed, nearly naked, with his younger son, who was completely naked–the prosecution pointed out that Margery Landry was wearing all black, and that this tied in with the “threat” made by Elsa.   Two things wrong with that argument by the prosecution: Elsa never made such a threat. Margery Landry was not dressed in black. Landry wore tan pants, a green shirt and tan shoes. Duh! If the prosecution fell into that error headfirst, how many others did Katherine Winfree fall into? And doesn’t this raise some reasonable doubt about Elsa’s guilt? I sure does for me!