For those who missed it, there was an excellent feature on Dateline last night about the death of surfer Emery Kauanui. If you remember, I blogged about this late last year, and Tokyolovestory from the 44s blogged about her high school friend Hank, one of the boys who was tried as an accessory.
Check out the feature if you have time. It’s a really sad story, totally senseless. This was one of those cases where the defense had, well, no defense. It’s hard to argue for a 220 lb. guy who drove to his 145 lb. victim’s house, killed his victim, and then claimed self-defense, despite the facts that it was a 5 on 1 fight and he outweighed the victim by 75 lbs. The drama between the prosecutor and the defense attorney was interesting as well.
I almost felt bad for Seth Cravens at the end, when the defense attorney asked the judge to allow her client to give a final hug to his fiancee and family.
The judge simply said, “Can’t do it. I’m sorry.”
Even the worse criminal has people who are important to him. Seth Cravens won’t be seeing them or spending time with them for a very long time. It’s sad.
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