I am not a yank, but watching things like this, american nightmare, the conversations with a killer series, I am beginning to understand the whole "defund" movement in the states.
This was a black and white, irrefutable case of domestic abuse and self defence, yet through nothing other than sheer, incomprehensible stupidity was declared "murder".
Everyone, including Ray's own friends corroborated that he was physically abusive and had been for years, 2 of the police who responded to Sally's call noted in their paperwork the marks and bruises on her body and neighbours heard a domestic fight the night of the shot.
All of this was ignored because mr da scumbag shows up and makes the fllowing "arguments" 1: that because a woman who is stressed, exhausted and locked in a tiny room with no information tries to close her eyes and briefly escape a bleak reality inbetween incessant questions that means she has no remorse 2: becuse Sally took care of herself and wasn't chained into the kitchen to only exist when Ray needed her, she couldn't possibl have been abused by a 6ft2, 260lb roid abusing psychopath.
3: They claimed that all forensic evidence was invalid because there was "no DNA of Sally's found on Ray", which is 100% bs for a number of reasons A: She said he choked her, not cut her, unless his nails were like claws there would be minimal to no transfer from this.
B: She said right from the first interview that when she got away from him she used the gun to keep him away so he couldn't lay hands on her. These 2 things completely explain minimal amounts of DNA C: Claiming there was "no DNA" is an absolute lie. They lived together in a small apartment, he was using shared cooking utensils to cook shared food in a shared kitchen, after he was shot he was lying on a floor which both of their feet had trod on thousands of times and to try and shield the kids as best she could, Sally put a shared blanket from *their* bed over him. It is literally impossible in that environment for there to have been no DNA on him, replace Ray with a total stranger in that scenario and they would still have a ton of Sally's DNA on them after all that happened.
Yet somehow despite evidence and testimony from literally everyone even remotely aware of their relationship, including people whose only knowledge of Sally was through Ray as proxy because Ray was their friend all collaborating, all lining up and all proving beyond any discernable doubt that it was self defence, a scumbag, overcompensating "prosecutor" told a series of blatant lies, ignored evidence and spun a tale born from his inability to please women and a jury whose collective IQ was so low they could not possibly be deemed as human beings believed literal fiction over medical records, visible bruising, police documentation of bruising and accounts from Rays own circle of friends.
That's a truly disgusting level of stupidity.
This was a black and white, irrefutable case of domestic abuse and self defence, yet through nothing other than sheer, incomprehensible stupidity was declared "murder".
Everyone, including Ray's own friends corroborated that he was physically abusive and had been for years, 2 of the police who responded to Sally's call noted in their paperwork the marks and bruises on her body and neighbours heard a domestic fight the night of the shot.
All of this was ignored because mr da scumbag shows up and makes the fllowing "arguments" 1: that because a woman who is stressed, exhausted and locked in a tiny room with no information tries to close her eyes and briefly escape a bleak reality inbetween incessant questions that means she has no remorse 2: becuse Sally took care of herself and wasn't chained into the kitchen to only exist when Ray needed her, she couldn't possibl have been abused by a 6ft2, 260lb roid abusing psychopath.
3: They claimed that all forensic evidence was invalid because there was "no DNA of Sally's found on Ray", which is 100% bs for a number of reasons A: She said he choked her, not cut her, unless his nails were like claws there would be minimal to no transfer from this.
B: She said right from the first interview that when she got away from him she used the gun to keep him away so he couldn't lay hands on her. These 2 things completely explain minimal amounts of DNA C: Claiming there was "no DNA" is an absolute lie. They lived together in a small apartment, he was using shared cooking utensils to cook shared food in a shared kitchen, after he was shot he was lying on a floor which both of their feet had trod on thousands of times and to try and shield the kids as best she could, Sally put a shared blanket from *their* bed over him. It is literally impossible in that environment for there to have been no DNA on him, replace Ray with a total stranger in that scenario and they would still have a ton of Sally's DNA on them after all that happened.
Yet somehow despite evidence and testimony from literally everyone even remotely aware of their relationship, including people whose only knowledge of Sally was through Ray as proxy because Ray was their friend all collaborating, all lining up and all proving beyond any discernable doubt that it was self defence, a scumbag, overcompensating "prosecutor" told a series of blatant lies, ignored evidence and spun a tale born from his inability to please women and a jury whose collective IQ was so low they could not possibly be deemed as human beings believed literal fiction over medical records, visible bruising, police documentation of bruising and accounts from Rays own circle of friends.
That's a truly disgusting level of stupidity.