[MrEdd]

So all you really need is an allegation right? Say three hulking college athletes gang raped a stripper in a tiny bathroom?

Is that now the standard?
No evidence needed?
A tenuous motive?

A little girl is dead. That is tragic.
Convicting her father of murder - whether he is guilty or not won’t bring her back.

Convicting her killer on the basis of evidence is justice.
Convicting her father with hearsay is a lynch mob.
I’m not that into the lynch mob thing, thank you very much.

[driftdiver]

Innocent until proven guilty? You mean mob justice isn’t what our country was founded on???

Poor little girl, so many people would love to have her as a daughter.

[novemberslady]

From the link...
He was tried...the biggest problem was deciding which murder conviction he should receive.

Brown was tried three years ago, but a mistrial was declared after a jury deadlocked on the severity of the crime. Some jurors favored a first-degree murder conviction, while others voted for second-degree murder or manslaughter.

[AnAmericanMother]

There's a difference between sitting on a jury and sitting in front of a keyboard.

Anything we say here has little if any effect on the outcome of the case.

Now, if a major daily newspaper in the county from which the jury pool would be drawn, or 88 professors at a local university ditto, decided to declare him guilty without any evidence, or if the District Attorney lied, concealed exculpatory evidence, and tried the case in the newspapers, THAT would be a whole lot closer to a lynch mob.

By the way, a number of people have been convicted on hearsay evidence, if it falls under one of the exceptions to the hearsay rule. And circumstantial evidence (which I think is what is really involved here) has sent plenty of folks to the chair or the Big House.

But fortunately for the defendant and for our peace of mind (and likely our souls), we don't have the power to convict anybody on the basis of a pretrial news story.

I will say this -- IF CONVICTED, he ought to burn. Horrible crime and an absolutely inexcusable motive.

[Carley]

This precious child is dead.

Who died in the tiny bathroom?

[Albion Wilde]

Go to the link and read the whole thing before deciding everyone else is a lynch mob.