Gregory Goodman
In keeping with my recent trend of blogging about past cases from the area in which I currently live I came upon this case. Unlike many of the others, this one is rather short and to the point. There really is a lot less, in the legal sense, going on with this case and yet I still found it quite interesting and leaves us with some legalities to ponder. While the last case that I discussed, the John Matthew Stephenson case, was considered to be the longest in Indiana history, this case surely is not. The trial lasted two days and the total time between when the murder occurred and the defendant was sentenced for the crime was less than five months. To be honest, my first thought when beginning my research and discovering this was worry at just how fast this case was concluded. In the end that was not a concern as I realized that the defendant had admitted to the crime, but of course as defendants often do, claimed he did not intend to murder anyone. ...