re: #72 steve_davis

it isn’t going to matter. I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve watched a lot of t.v. mostly college football, but let’s pretend it was free university and a course called Evidence. a competent judge will never let the marijuana enter into the trial. Competely irrelevant to events and potentially incendiary to any jury. Inadmissible.

Depends on the theory of the case the defense intends to introduce. If they wish to argue that she had a perfectly legal reason to enter the apartment, i.e. she saw the weed in “plain view” and intended to arrest Jean for possession, then the debate about whether or not she could be in his apartment evaporates. At that point, it becomes a “stand your ground” case and jury sides with the white woman who “feared for her life.”