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Opening Statements in St. v. Marissa Devault

February 6, 2014 By Monica

Devault and husband

MKL’s take on the Opening Statements in Devault

Today I was in the courtroom for the opening statements in the State v. Marissa Devault case.  This is a death penalty case in Maricopa County.  The State is alleging Devault murdered her husband by attacking him, while he slept, in the head with a hammer.  She did this for the money she would receive from two life insurance policies, one that was older and a very new one. You see, prior to the murder she had a relationship with a man who loaned her almost $300,000.00 and she needed to repay him.  That is what the State is alleging is Devault’s motive for killing her husband.

The openings did not blow me away with brilliance; however, each attorney did a good job of laying out the basics of their arguments.  Opening statements are supposed to be an outline of what the evidence will show so I did not expect them to be anything more than that.  I have inserted a short account of what happened in the statements and my thoughts on them above.

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Filed Under: Current Cases in the Media, Monica's Blog Tagged With: @monicalindstrom, criminal law, criminal trials, death penalty, default murder trial, Devault trial, in the news, KTAR, legal analyst, maricopa county, marissa devault, st v. Marissa Devault

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