General Discussion

He was so thoroughly and obviously guilty. There were 24 witnesses basically all telling coherent stories that aligned with the physical and video evidence. The people whose stories varied wildly in the media were disproved with evidence, and they changed their tunes real quick once on the stand with perjury being a thing that exists.

When even the defense's own witnesses were on the stand going, "Yeah, he's pretty much guilty," his goose was cooked.

I still can't believe it even went to trial. He and his family seem to have gotten rotten advice from the start. There should have been a plea, and then this young man could serve his sentence for the tragedy he caused and still have the bulk of his life ahead of him.

I don't know if they were getting all gassed up from social media or what, but the prosecutors barely had to try here, and the defense literally had nothing. It was frankly weird to see just how little they had in way of defense, and yet it still went to trial.

I do think he regrets it. All the testimony that came after signifies that. If they ultimately go with 20 years, I think that would be just given things. But that's up to the jury.