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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't have any faith in someone that doesn't testify on their own behalf.  You are being charged with murder, it doesn't get any worse than that.

Did he testify in the rape case?[/quote]

You clearly have no clue how the legal system or reality work[/quote]

Um...yeah I do know how reality works, which isn't always the same as how the legal system works.  I do understand why a defendant might not want to or his/her attorney may not want it, but I can still not like it. I am not an outlier, "Polling data indicate that approximately half of all Americans believe that a defendant who does not testify in his or her own defense is guilty. Survey by Fox News and Opinion Dynamics, February 12–13, 2002. Retrieved April 25, 2008 from the iPOLL Databank, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut."

He couldn't have been impeached with the rape charge because he was proven to be factually innocent.  His other crimes, breaking & entering weren't that big of a deal.  The animal abuse, I think he had only been charged with, no trial yet so don't think that could have been used against him.  The Supreme determined, relatively recently, that defendants could be sworn in and testify on their own behalf because to “testify on one’s behalf is ‘[a right] . . . that is essential to due process of law in a fair adversary process."  Essential to due process of the law, good enough reason for him to testify to me.

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