"A lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client," goes the old maxim, and generally speaking, it's true.
However, there's a woman out here representing herself in a murder trial, and it appears that she has a definite strategy: drag the damn thing out until you lose enough jurors to get a mistrial.
She clearly has some mental issues - she's paranoid and narcissistic, for starters. She gets hung up on minutiae to her own detriment. She accuses the judge of bias and the prosecutor of "making faces" at her.
All that aside, she may just win. If she does, it would set an interesting precedent for others to follow.
Here's the story so far.
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In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Sounds like she can just plead insanity.
Yeah, she's pleading self defense, which is odd in a way - she's claiming, on the one hand, that she couldn't possibly have attacked her husband and won, since he weighed 175 lbs to her 110. But the way she tells the story, he attacked her with a knife, and she somehow wrestled it away from him and killed him.
...I have no idea how that's supposed to have worked.
...I have no idea how that's supposed to have worked.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
I couldn't imagine living with this woman. I don't think I would have waited until 70 to try and kill her.
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hit in the head and stabbed repeatedly in their pool house.
I wonder how many times he was stabbed. Kind of reminds me of that lady that ran over her husband multiple times but claiming it was an accident.
Like the article says she's just dragging it out to wear everyone out. She's also getting attention which I'm sure she's getting off on.
I think they should tie her to the back of an 18 wheeler and drag her across country for as long as she drags this on. She needs a good bash in the head.
The fact that the judge and the prosecutor are now pretty much letting her do what she wants is not helping matters. I got twenty that says she gets the mistrial.
Buffyisagoddess wrote:
The fact that the judge and the prosecutor are now pretty much letting her do what she wants is not helping matters. I got twenty that says she gets the mistrial.
Sounds like they haven't quite given up yet! But that said - I'm glad I'm neither of them.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
If a defendant is found to be mentally competent to stand trial, the defendant, after some hearings and other procedures, can waive the right to an attorney and represent himself/herself. This means that Polk was found to be mentally competent to stand trial. It doesn't mean she is completely sane, just that she understands the legal proceedings that are against her.
That being said, she's still batshit crazy by the way she's acting. But she's also a genius in pretty much roping the court to do her bidding. She has found a way to twist the system to feed her own maniacal, overbearing, narcissistic mentality. If a mistrial's called, the prosecution has the option of beginning anew, or it dismisses the charges and she walks. And how can the prosecution save its dignity and dismiss the charges if she's beaten them with a mistrial? They can't. So this is going to be a wash, rinse, repeat thing until the end of time.
Edit: But I won't be surprised if the jury finds her guilty just because she put them through the most excruciatingly lengthy trial.
Edited, Tue Apr 11 19:16:46 2006 by Thumbelyna
That being said, she's still batshit crazy by the way she's acting. But she's also a genius in pretty much roping the court to do her bidding. She has found a way to twist the system to feed her own maniacal, overbearing, narcissistic mentality. If a mistrial's called, the prosecution has the option of beginning anew, or it dismisses the charges and she walks. And how can the prosecution save its dignity and dismiss the charges if she's beaten them with a mistrial? They can't. So this is going to be a wash, rinse, repeat thing until the end of time.
Edit: But I won't be surprised if the jury finds her guilty just because she put them through the most excruciatingly lengthy trial.
Edited, Tue Apr 11 19:16:46 2006 by Thumbelyna
Stupid like a fox 
As crazy and persistent as she is I'd bet she's great in bed. I say she gets off.
Interesting. It's tough to lock her up for contempt of court without simultaneously violating her right to due process.
Judges go right down to the wire trying to dissuade people from acting as their own counsel, for so many reasons. In the end, though, they do have the right.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Samira wrote:
Judges go right down to the wire trying to dissuade people from acting as their own counsel, for so many reasons. In the end, though, they do have the right.
Has she stood for a mental eval? I think that should be a caveat, if it isn't already. If you're not sane enough to keep yourself from offing someone, it should prevent you from defending yourself.
I'm sure she has, probably under the advice of the first of four attorneys she's fired. (Well, three; one dropped out of the case after his own wife was murdered.)
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
If she keeps this up someone is going to snap and just go ballistic on her stab her multiple times and claim it's self defense.
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