"willful deliberate and premeditated", you need all 3. If you think a guy who is getting shitfaced the morning of the murder is " premeditating" then you either haven't been drunk or don't know what you are talking about. Was it a heinous murder by a drunken exboyfriend? Yes. But the he clearly didn't create a plan to kill her, thus it isn't capital murder. More than likely, it was a beating (which he had done before), gone awry/ over the top

Did you not read anything in this thread? you need "willful, deliberate, and premeditated' PLUS one of the aggravators. The statute is on the previous page.

Because you got the law wrong. Twice.

I understand that, the atty. is giving their client the best defense they can. My first thought was if that was my daughter I'd be waiting for the defense atty. outside the courthouse with some choice words just to make her drive home that night a little uncomfortable. I believe the lead for the defense is female and is likely a mom, can't be easy for her.

Your claim against premeditation isn't an absolute and is by my observation an opinion. Hardly conclusive.

Doubt anything you'd say would make a defense attorney's life more uncomfortable than it might already be ... I'm sure that defense lawyer (like every other one I've ever met) has previously considered and come to terms with the fact that their client's victim has a family.

my dad did criminal defense work for about 20 years. while he refused to defend accused child molestors or rapists, he would always point to the fact that every defendant has a right to a fair trial as per the U.S. Constitution.

lack of anger mgmt and alcohol fueled. Probably did not mean to kill her initially, but lack of full senses probably kept him from realizing the extent of the damage he was doing. Doesn't matter in my book. Good thing for him I'm not the judge.

Interesting opening arguments.

Prosecutors on Wednesday said that a few days before Yeardley Love’s death, George Huguely V sent her an e-mail that said in part: “I should have killed you.”

Commonwealth’s Attorney Warner “Dave” Chapman told jurors at Huguely’s murder trial that the April 30 message was among several in an angry series of e-mails between the on-again-off-again couple, both University of Virginia students, in the spring of 2010.

Late May 3, 2010, prosecutors said, Huguely, of Chevy Chase, broke down Love’s bedroom door, shook her until her head banged against a wall and left her bleeding. Her roommate later found Love, 22, dead, facedown on her bed.

Francis McQ. Lawrence, one of Huguely’s defense attorneys, said Huguely never intended to hurt Love and went to her apartment “to talk, to make up, to work things out.” He said Love’s head never struck the wall, and that the couple, while on the bed together, fell to the floor.

Lawrence said Huguely, who was drunk that night, left Love’s apartment with no sense she had been badly hurt. As Huguely walked out, Lawrence said, he grabbed Love’s computer “to get her to reach out” to him in the morning.

“Everything that happened here was unintended and unexpected,” Lawrence said and left “no reason for George to think” Love was dead or seriously injured.

The interpretations of that night from Chapman and Lawrence came on the opening day of Huguely’s trial on a charge of first-degree murder and five other counts.

The defense all stated that the blood on the sheets/bed and from her nose were from CPR administered by the EMT's.

Is it possible to have the defense attorneys incarcerated also?

Wait, that guy's name is Francis McQ. Lawrence?

"He's not complicated. He's not complex. He's a lacrosse player," Lawrence said.

Jokes aside, is there any real evidence that he murdered her? In the article I posted it says that it took 2 hours for her to die from her injuries. That does sorta sound like someone who got into a fight with his girlfriend and left thinking she was okay.

edit: I suppose the photos of her after the fact and the corners report will tell one way or the other. I haven't read (or have forgotten) how bad her injuries were. He could have beat the crap out of her or shook her once and she bumped her head. I don't know.

Can you imagine how drunk he must have been if he had no idea she was badly injured?