True Crime Stories

Sometimes a case is less about the guilt or innocence of a person and more about the legalities of the trial and the evidence submitted. This is what constitutes that someone gets a “fair” trial. For most prosecutors while one goal is to get as much evidence entered into the court that they can, the other goal is to make sure that evidence is entered properly so that if they obtain the conviction they are looking for there is less reason for a court to overturn a verdict. More often than not verdicts are overturned on minor things such as a statement that is made in court that likely should not have been or the appeals court decides a judge allowed something into evidence that they believe was prejudice against the defendant. Sure there are the cases that are overturned from blatant disregard of the rules of the court made by prosecutors, among other things. Now, to be fair, the case against David Viens has not been overturned as of now and in 2014 the appeals court upheld h...

This will likely be one of my shorter blogs, and for those of you who know, and sometimes get frustrated with my "books" this may be a pleasant surprise.  Not only is there not an extreme amount of detailed information about this case, but really there are few things that have drug out or were extraordinary.   On the surface this looks like your "run of the mill" (that sounds horrible) spouse kills spouse because they do not want to lose money in a divorce case. Even the fact that the husband was eventually convicted because he had hired someone to kill his estranged wife is not that unusual. But this case made headlines and not for the standard reasons, such as the fact that the husband was a millionaire, although that would have done it too.  This case became "sensational" because while Lynn Schockner was being murdered in her backyard police officers were waiting at the gate to her yard for her to unlock it. On November 8, 2004 in Bixby Knolls Calif...