Their Courtroom Defense of the Admitted Killer Was Like a Sad Country Song. Would It Work?

I was haunted by something a lawyer told me more than a year ago."Here's the bottom line," defense attorney J. Warren St. John said in an interview with The Watchdog. "You can put this in a quote. The truth will come out in trial. He will be acquitted."How could that be? How could St. John help his client beat a murder charge? What jury wouldn't want to punish his client, Kenneth Martin, for murdering his wife, Linda Martin, at Southlake Town Square in front of eyewitnesses?Two years ago, Martin put on his white cowboy hat, stepped from his pickup, walked to his wife's car ahead and shot the Flower Mound resident in the face.  Continue reading...