"A tech millionaire, an exotic Central American locale, murder, the possibility of drugs — the story just has everything," says Nathalie Malinarich, world editor of the BBC News Web site.
A cold, emotionless man remains throughout utterly uninterested in his own life story – his mother's death, his neighbour's violent misogyny, his girlfriend, the murder he commits, his trial for that murder, the possibility of redemption or even his own humanity.
Abdul Bary, for example, is facing 269 life sentences for murder without the possibility of parole.
John C. Robbins, the defense lawyer for Thomas E. Blanton Jr., accused of four counts of murder, raised the possibility that he might not present a case.
Apart from issuing definitive verdicts, the highest legal body also has the power to send back cases to appeal as it has for the Meredith Kercher murder – raising the possibility of a further drawn-out process in the courts.
Apart from issuing definitive verdicts, the Supreme Court also has the power to send back cases to a different appeal court as it has for the Meredith Kercher murder – raising the possibility of a drawn-out game of legal ping pong.
Before Dr. Pos could be questioned, Tallio's lawyers accepted a plea agreement, reducing his conviction to second degree murder with the possibility of parole after 10 years.
Dr. Lee took the stand on the second day of the trial in which Mr. Skakel, 41, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy's, is charged with murder and faces the possibility of a life sentence.
Adding to the family's pain, and fueling the headlines that the murder ignited, was the possibility that the killing of the lawyer, George M. Aronwald, was linked to his son's former work as a federal prosecutor who, in the 1970's, pursued mobsters as head of the Justice Department's organized crime strike force in Manhattan.
The shooter was later charged with second-degree murder and given the possibility of parole.
The case was significant not just because two officers had died but because the man who was eventually charged with the murders, Ronell Wilson, faced the possibility of becoming the first person in more than fifty years to be executed for a crime in New York State.
