This was one of the worst opening statements I have heard, I mean, she was really really terrible…but then, what are u gonna do if the facts are not on your side….

A lady being forced to argue an impossible position. She's not speaking with confidence at all.

If she was my lawyer, I would know I’m in big trouble.

His defense: "Resist believing your eyes and your ears."

Perfect example of a defense opening when there is no defense.

Why is she speaking like she is talking to a toddler, that is so irritating, if I was a juror I'd find it near impossible to listen to anything she says

She's either absolutely terrible, or he's absolutely completely guilty of the crimes he's on trial for.

Holy smokes. The defense attorney is making rambling incoherent statements. Completely ludicrous. It is now abundantly clear that the dude clearly killed and dismembered his parents. May they RIP. God bless🙏

She's struggling. You can't defend this! Poor woman...

I felt sick listening to the opening statement by the state prosecutor. He did an AMAZING job of painting a picture of this monster...How he burned their bodies...how he hacked them into pieces...scattered them all over...manipulated his parents, girlfriend, and friend. I can't believe someone would do that to their parents...all because the lies he had made were coming crash down. Prayers out to the family and friends of these poor people who lost their lives for nothing 😔

Lady....if this was part of your opening statement...you client is guilty....I'm so confused.

It’s scary to not know that you could be creating kids capable of murdering you. When all you ever tried to do is love them.

I lived in a home with a fireplace for 15 years. Sometimes I'd light a fire in hot weather on a cool night just because. Never had a human skull show up in my fireplace.

I guess I would be a horrible juror in this case because the prosecution's opening statement swayed me!!

She's not saying anything. What's the deal? Kinda sounds like the closing statement.

She might as well say "are you going to believe me or your lying eyes."

I sure hope he didn’t pay for this defense.

This lady 🤦🏾‍♀️ she almost speaks like she's trying to convince herself her client is innocent, smh

What?! No evidence is evidence... really that's her line?

This defense attorney has a very steep battle up a very very long hill, good luck to her.

The defenses opening statement sounds like a freshman’s essay about a book they didn’t read. 😂

This defense has no chance at all of winning. If the jury has any common sense and the prosecution delivers what they said they would he is guilty as sin!

Sometimes you can't defend the indefensible.

This fool killed his parents and for what ? To do life in prison.. You think you hated your parents pal..

I have never heard such a poor excuse for a opening statement. Guilty as the day is long. The prosecution opening statement pretty much says as much. Yes, I know, we're not supposed to take them as evidence for the case but bloody hell, you'd have to be blind and deaf or dead to not get what's happened 🙄

Sounds like she knows he is guilty but hopes she can convince the jury that he really didn't do it.

Most people don't have enough money for a good murder defense and if you don't this is what you usually get.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...umm then it's a duck

Well it is a pretty pitiful defense opening... but she really doesn’t have much to work with...

“Avoid jumping to conclusions.” In other words overlook the evidence and truth.

It’s obviously very hard to defend a murdering sociopath. 🤨

What does him being an eagle scout have to do with anything 🤔

So because their dead and the only eye witnesses to their son killing them, you should vote not guilty. Hmmmm

She’s looking in their eyes and saying “The kid did it. I’m screwed.” Lol.

This is almost identical to the case where the bald man killed his mom and dad over an internet sex addiction.

That he's not pleading guilty, that this has went to trial, and that a defense is trying to be raised - makes this murder story that's aready like a movie - into the theater of the absurd.

Chopping people up and scattering body parts seems kinda intentional to me 😳

Every time she pauses I can hear her silent screaming inside. She's hating everything she has to say.

Defense strategy: confuse otherwise logical jurors. I see a future ineffectiveness of counsel appeal

"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence" - Gin Rummy, The Boondocks

Good to see a lawyer struggling. She might as well have said: Sorry, there’s nothing I can come up with. So I just quote the obvious.

Loo that lady didnt help her client

What🤷‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️ I’m pretty sure, I’ve heard a better opening statement on “How to get away with Murder/Law and Order”…This kid is toast.

A second possibility is that the defense is setting the stage for the perfect 'ineffective defense' appeal.

So she basically said turn the other cheek and avoid reality at all costs. You'd have a better defense just throwing in an insanity plea.

This could not be more ridiculous and painful to watch. Defense has absolutely nothing.

Come on, we all know an Eagle Scout would never do such a thing.

DA did a freaking amazing job. She has 0 to work with. I'm sure the jury is going to see right thru her.

She is embarrassing 💀 literally talking in circles about nothing after the prosecutors opening statement she knew she was screwed

This opening statement sounded more like begging jurors to set aside common sense rather than telling the jury there isn’t enough sufficient evidence to convict the defendant. There was no clear statement of the case made here. Defendants do have the presumption of innocence and are not required to put on a defense, therefore, it would be more convincing to say the prosecution does not have enough to convict. What is prosecutions case and why does it not prove beyond a reasonable doubt the defendant is guilty? This almost sounded as if the defense doesn’t know the evidence nor do they have any rebut to the circumstantial evidences which may be presented. Jurors are not legal scholars and should not be made to guess where this storyline is going. Also, telling people to dismiss their common sense is slightly insulting if you ask me.

He should have pled guilty. What is he hoping to achieve? An acquittal?

This is what it looks and sounds like when you are standing on the shore having been appointed as Captain of the ship that has already left the dock and is sinking like a rock.

She said it would be short... And it was... "Look for what you don't see" smacked of desperation.

And this is how a defense opens when there is no innocence

This defense got one thing right, "you gonna have to dig deep and look what all this means." She sounds like a 6th Jan denier, he was just a kid playing with his gun and saw tools.

This might be the worst opening statement I’ve ever heard.

I could accept the devil himself having done this but to have your son do these things is beyond belief. SMH

Defense opening is lame. "I don't have a fancy powerpoint presentation." You don't have any evidence to prove reasonable doubt, either, lady.

Being in the jury listening to her open would have felt like an opening act ..while the act deminished your intelligence..

The struggle is real for her but she has no defense either!

So his defense is "LOL. Prove it"

She comes across as patronising.

This fact here could mean a fact here but it could also mean 3 or 4 other facts.....Resist guessing jurors, Remember, that evidence of one thing doesn't necessarily mean evidence of another thing.....umm, ma'am, I think they could've determined that much on their own, but thanks for reminding the Jury. Now, hopefully, they won't guess anything about your client & the murder\dismemberment of his own parents, now that you've told them not to..They'll simply look at the evidence, facts & the things that aren't there, as you asked, while they're deciding if your clients guilty or not.

This lady is bonkers, this guy has so much evidence against him already. The DA’s opening statement was enough for me, jeez!

I'd be a terrible juror, cause I've already jumped to GUILTY!

There is absolutely no way this guy can be defended. This case is open and shut.

Omg this defense attorney is pitiful

this Defence must be thinking F my life!

Jesus Christ 🤦🏽‍♀️

I'm surprised she didn't raise reasonable doubt in her opening statement and bring the family dog into it as a suspect.Maybe the dog and cat worked together on it.The cat shredded them and the dog dug the hole.lolol.

Dreadful defence lawyer,she knows he did it

Horrible opening statement, but she has very little to work with. Weak, very weak, and she's talking in circles.

I wouldn't want to be in her shoes..

What she's trying to say is that she has absolutely nothing to combat the mountain of evidence against her client.

Defense attorney: "I'm gonna ask you to believe me when I lie to you." Beyond a reasonable doubt means within reasonable surety."

The defense sounds like Jennifer Coolidge, which is funny because her opening statement sounds like something from a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

She is so bad, se mocks the prosecutor for using a "fancy powerpoint" and repeats that the jury should be objective, its really a opening that does not bring up anything in defense.

Her 7 min opening just about confirms his guilt

Good lord , he's guilty as sin and his lawyers know it ..

Why does this sound more of a closing statement than a opening one? 🤣🤣

Did he lie about everything in his life? Has he always been a lier? This could not have just happened, this is who he has always been.

Is the defense literally just "I didn't do it." ... ??? That's it? Nothing else. Not even pretending to claim some b.s. excuse?? Just wow. Lol . Why is this guy even bothering with a trial? Who's gonna find him not guilty just based on he said "wasn't me." ... ???

Whether it’s intentional or not.....what???

Forget you had an opening statement in a murder trial today?? What the hell even is this?

Compared to the prosecution’s opening comments, this is a speech you give in ninth grade off the cuff and fail it because you blew off your homework.

I know being a defence lawyer is just a job but I do wonder how they look at themselves in a mirror each morning, particularly when they’re defending a case that is so clean cut as this one.

Holy 🐮 - this was terrible!

I know this is her job but this opening statement sucks, if I was on the jury I'd be convinced he did it and they can't defend him.

She must have had trouble keeping a straight face when she summed up her opening by stating that her client did not murder his parents. I love legalese and would have liked to be have been a lawyer involved in criminal court, but I can't imagine how someone takes on a case that is so overwhelmingly futile.

To be fair this defence attorney has been given a very very difficult case… I don’t think she is trying to get him off altogether, I think she’ll be going for a lesser charge …. If they can’t prove it was him that actually shot the gun that killed them then she’s possibly on to something there.

Weak, weak, weak opening from the defence because there is none and she knows it

kind of surprised that this lawyer didn’t say the parents were abusive and racist…..

law and crime has the full videos, and they don't randomly stop because they need to take commercial breaks.

What a terrible opening.

Serious question: Was she not in the courtroom just a minute ago during prosecution’s opening and EPIC MIC DROP?

This defense has got her work cut out for her!

Literally THE worst defense opening statement I’ve ever heard. It reminded me of the sleepy attorney in My Cousin Vinny.

I'm wondering how can you defend this heinous act?? Oh...my bad...YOU CAN'T!! If there is a reason to keep the death penalty, this is DEFINITELY IT!

This guys cuts up parents skip trail throw away key.

His defense: “Dude trust me”