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REASONABLE DOUBT - The level of certainty a juror must have to find a defendant guilty of a crime. A real doubt, based upon reason and common sense after careful and impartial consideration of all the evidence, or lack of evidence, in a case.
Proof beyond a reasonable doubt, therefore, is proof of such a convincing character that you would be willing to rely and act upon it without hesitation in the most important of your own affairs. However, it does not mean an absolute certainty.
She emails kent and tells him she wants to marry him, we didn't know this 12 years ago because she deleted all her emails. At the time we did know she purchased a million dollar life insurance policy on him and checked on its' status days before his murder. She claims that she wasn't checking on the policy, but calling to cancel it, yet it was never cancelled.
A bizarre note is discovered in Kent's car. The note is from Mehelle to this other guy Carlin and they are talking about a cabin in Hope Alaska. They discuss repairs and other things associated with this cabin. Yet, the cabin doesn't even exist, total fiction. The note also indicates she is planning to meet someone at this cabin at a time when she isn't even in the state.
Kent is then found shot in the back in hope alaska and it turns out the murder weapon is the same make and model of weapon owned by the person whom she is cooresponding with in the notes about the cabin.
An eyewitness indicates that she and this other person gave the same type of weapon an acid bath days after the murder.
As if that isn't enough, the victim writes an 'in case of my death' note to his parents and indicates that if he is ever found dead then it was this woman and the guy who wrote the notes about the fake cabin in the woods and owns the same type of weapon used in the murder.
I dunno, sure seems like she did it to me, a hustling stripper working the game that stepped way way over the line.
oh and by the way, murder in the first means that it was premeditated, not whether they actually pulled the trigger.
The law is never on our side in this country. Not even when we are victims so the results of this case do not surprise me.
You know what's bothering me?
The people relating what she did to hustling.
I mean what the hell.
Seems to me there is a screaming difference.
lol, I dunno, but I ain't taken no stinkin trips to no remote cabin in the woods with no strippers who buys a million dollar life insurance policy on my ass....
No, it's not criminal, but it's a terrible, terrible thing to do. It obviously leads only to disaster.
It might be a form of hustle, but i don't know that i'd call it hustle. Hustle is harmless. Unless this chick was a complete ditz she intended to harm all three of these guys. They had a hand in their heartache themselves, but i never met a stripper that wouldn't have been totally weirded out by even one marriage proposal, much less 3.
I saw this too. In my mind there is a huge difference between hustling, or "dirty hustling" as you call it, and fraud.
Conspiracy to commit murder is just as bad as being the one who pulls the trigger.
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I guess maybe it was just from the show, but I felt that she was put on trial based on the fact that she was a stripper and made questionable life choices. Do I think it's cool that she did that to those guys? Of course not!! I just don't think that it is illegal, or fraudulent in a CRIMINAL sense. Of course in a moral sense that is appalling.
I should maybe point out to all that my dad is a criminal defense attorney, so I have probably a different view on this case than the average. I'm sure what she did was wrong, but I just don't feel that the prosecutor provided any burden of proof that she was involved. I also feel that C. probably did kill TT, but I don't think there is enough evidence to justify rendering a guilty verdict towards Mechele based on that fact....
About ten percent of people in jail are estimated to be innocent and I believe that's a low ball figure. I just think that it's a slippery slope to start convicting in cases such as this one, where it seems "obvious" that the defendant is guilty. It does seem that logically she would be guilty, but there needs to be enough substantiating evidence in order to convict.
If that makes sense... I just believe that everyone deserves a fair trial and I don't think she got one. I'm not saying she's a kick ass person, but I feel had she been dating these three guys she met on match.com and wasn't taking gifts from them the story would have ended differently. Also, these three people lived in the same HOUSE together. The guys were wise to what was going on and were all sharing her out of their own volition.
Well if it was a three week trial, they had three weeks of testimony to listen to, that's not quite the same thing as three weeks worth of evidence. I think in these shows they still try to show the most compelling evidence.
I think the most damning testimony was from the son implicating the father, and the recovered emails in which she lured the victim to an isolated spot, a place where he was then murdered (by someone) shortly after she took out a million dollar life policy.
I guess for me, it's a sign that the justice system needs better checks and balances. It's frightening to think of people being falsely imprisoned, and I personally have a friend who was. (I know this for a fact, I was at the scene of the incident. His friend bought pot and threw it in a McDonalds bag by my friends feet when we got pulled over....there were 5 of us in the car. The other three kids wern't close to my friend and backed up their buddy on the story. It was a lot of weed, and my friend did 1 year in jail. Not related, but just an example.)
I totally agree, what she did was fucked up. I think it was wrong. And also, I am not saying that this isn't strange and that she DIDN'T have any involvement in the crime. She may very well have. But I don't think that was proven in a court of law, and that's the standard. Burden of proof. There was no direct evidence connecting her to the crime, only speculation. That's what was wrong with the trial, IMHO.
I just don't think the criminal justice system worked here. If they could have provided ONE credible witness (again, the kid who said she was present washing the gun said on pervious occassions she was NOT there, and changed his story after his dad went to jail :NOT a credible witness) that recounted any direct evidence of her guilt, I would feel differently.
I'm not even going to look up the case--I have enough research of my own to do. Anyhow, you can be convicted of conspiracy to commit murder under those standards, but you can also be convicted of "felony murder" simply by committing a felony (like defrauding three guys of large sums of money and arranging an assault of some sort) with anyone involved dying during the commission of the felony. The last time that I checked, that was a first degree murder.
A few paragraphs into that article I started thinking "Damn, that weirdo really pulled a number on her!"
From reading that - this is what I'm thinking.
Kent set her up. (Yep!!)
(He read her emails, how hard would it be to send 'her emails')
He'd shown little regard for his family in the past - using them as pawns would be perfect. Especially as they already didn't like her.
Something shady was going on at the time - cocaine smuggling, prostitution - whatever. Maybe a plan to kill him, even was in the pipeline - but this was not a result of that plan...
Who killed him? I think Hilke did it. Even if it weren't obvious... he is the smartest.
(And that would be why Kent was shot a third time - in the face.)
And what do you mean!! ..."Justice System" works perfectly!!
People are in jail, the public are once again safe - there will be promotions and applause all 'round. And just quietly, a nice chunk of change was generated by all of this. (What kinda scratch does a Doctor make...? Plus all the rest of it!!)
Sounds like the system still works to me.
I agree, 48 hours picked this story because it is juicy, who doesn't love a good stripper done me wrong story?
She makes a great villan, she is (was) still hot and has that sexy sinister quality.
The story is validation for 'moral' folks living boring lives, 'see what happens when you get involved with the evil seductress, she murders you'
Also, the story works because she has turned her life around and is now the suburban mom married to a doctor. It presents redemption in shakesperean dimension. If she were doing crack and turning tricks in Las Vegas then it would not be as good a story, she has something to loose.
Fiinally, I am not pointing at you (at all), but when I read in hustle hut or wherever about dancers bragging about hustling a few grand from a PL, remember that most the time it is money guys can't afford. There is a college fund that just got depleted or a mortgage payment that wasn't paid and/or a wife that realizes her marriage is on the rocks.
So yes, the media is going to put all strippers on trial, deal with it.
"HE" came in and spent of his own free will..believe me there are PLENTY who dont. How is that our fault??? Nobody faults the car salesman who upsells or the waitress who convinces someone to get the filet mignon instead of the hamburger. We (most of us) dont steal the money...HE spends it on his own. Thats HARDLY the same thing.
If a guy goes shopping for a Toyota and comes home with a Lexus with the excuse that the salesperson said it was better and he'd like it more....people call HIM an idiot..not the salesperson. As salespeople its our JOB to upsell. But somehow only the stripper gets painted as an evil shiester. ::)
Ha. If any salesperson didn't sell things to people unless they were convinced they could afford it comfortably and pay cash, that salesperson would STARVE. Comsumer spending would come to a grinding halt. Can you imagine?
Guy: I want to get some dances with you.
Concerned Stripper: Are you sure? You know they cost $20. That's for every song, so every few minutes you need pay an additional $20- just to warn you it adds up fast. Do you have any upcoming bills or expenditures that are more important than a lap dance? Do you have credit card debt? Have you contributed to a 401k or IRA this year? Here's the five dollars you tipped me earlier back. It sounds like you need it more than I do...
There is a difference between talking a guy out of his money in the club and accepting marriage proposals from 3 different dudes and meeting some of thier families etc