Originally Posted by
rickdugan
I can't speak to what she was thinking at the time, but her big mistake was ignorance and maybe a little naivete. She thought that her "big bad old man tried to diddle lil' ol' me" defense would work, but she did not count on the picture that his position at time of death would paint for the jury, nor did she seem to understand the world of jailhouse snitches and monitored communications. She also didn't seem to understand how her seeming lack of compunction would play for the jury. Lessons learned.
So when she realized that self defense was not going to play, she went to her appeal and to the press with the story of the "big bad pimp made me do it." Ah huh. A drug addled 24 year old guy made an armed teenage girl with a 134 IQ and a fascination with killing do something that she didn't want to do and actually routinely beat her. The same girl who coldly executed another man in cold blood and even bragged about it to her foster mother and another inmate. Alrighty then. ;)
Almost needless to say, with all of the case information at their disposal, the appeal court didn't buy it. They also didn't buy her claims of having ineffective counsel because counsel did not introduce fetal alcohol syndrome ("FAS") evidence into trial or let her testify.
Wanna' know why counsel avoided the dimished capacity defense? Because they did not believe that they could prove diminished capacity with someone who has a 134 IQ and were concerned that other symptoms of FAS, including disassociative personality disorder, impulse control and potential psychopathy, would actually bolster the prosecution's case more than their own. With the overwhelming evidence against this girl, including her own words, the jury probably already thought she was a psychopath.
And counsel advised her against testifying because they were afraid that she would get skewered on cross and because they were concerned about her self control on the stand. Good thinking there given how flimsy her story was - at least her original story.
You should read some of this stuff Miss, seriously now. All the photo opps and spun stories in the world aren't going to help this one. No Governor in his/her right mind is going to issue a pardon for a potential psychopath. Also, as soon as Kim K's lawyers dig into the court transcripts and see everything that the jury saw and heard, I'm guessing that Kim's interest is going to go away too.