Assumption is the mother of all mistakes,” she said. “Look for what’s missing. Look for alternate explanations.”Dorl said the state’s witnesses and the evidence would not be “hotly contested” by the defense and that it’s not possible to know how Bart and Krista Halderson might have responded to Chandler’s lies. She also made clear that, at the end of the trial, defense attorneys could stand before the jury conceding that the state did convict Chandler of some crimes, but not murder. Chandler said they took a number of tools, including a hatchet and gas cans to fill up a chainsaw, Brown and witnesses said Tuesday, as well as an unusually large amount of alcohol and several thousand dollars in cash.

Source: CNN January 05, 2022 13:04 UTC