Jeremy Scott Mason
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I believe that life gives us all experiences and events that enrich us, either through pleasure or pain. Move forward. Own it all. And do not hesitate to tell your story.
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Lifetime Trial Part 3
The Penalty Phase If we thought that the guilt phase and all of the horrors that were laid out before us were traumatic, the penalty phase made them look like a “Nightmare on Elm Street” movie as opposed to the “Human Centipede” that was to come. Many of the witnesses were the same (from the prosecution). The true contrast came when pictures of the black garbage bags that contained the bodies of the children were brought in front of us to view. The descriptions of the scene at the recovery of the bodies only served to add to the repulsiveness of the treatment of the children. A pathologist gave us the results of the autopsies, which were completed with as much accuracy as one could expect from week-to-ten-day-old bodies that had sat in black garbage bags in the Alabama heat for several days. Even more impactful, however, was a taped telephone conversation that the Defendant had with his family a few months after he was taken into custody to await his trial. In it, he stated that the blame for what happened lay with the children’s mother, that his son was just trying to get to her and that is why the crime happened. He took no responsibility for what he had done.
By Jeremy Scott Mason5 years ago in Criminal
Lifetime Trial Part 1
“A child should feel safe in his father’s arms.” Those words haunt me and stand out to me as the beginning of a period of personal trauma and growth. They marked the beginning of a trial that affected my life in the deepest possible way and helped shake and shape the person that I was into the person that I have become.
By Jeremy Scott Mason5 years ago in Criminal
Lifetime Trial Part 2
The Guilt Phase Opening statements had impact, especially for the prosecution. The line about being safe in a father’s arms was the opening line of the prosecution’s opening statement. It was especially impactful to me, as I am a father of four children (all girls between the ages of six and twenty as the trial was beginning). I have a strong belief that fatherhood is a role of discipline, strength and protection. Being a father meant that my children were always safest when with me.
By Jeremy Scott Mason5 years ago in Criminal
