Criminal
Sep. 8, 2012
Lois Goodman: safe or out?
Respected tennis referee Lois Goodman is charged with murdering her husband of 50 years with a coffee mug.
Louis J. Shapiro
Email: LouisJShapiro@Gmail.com
Louis, a former Los Angeles County Public Defender, is a criminal defense attorney and State Bar-certified criminal law specialist out of Century City. He is also a legal analyst, board member of the California Innocence Project and Project For The Innocence at Loyola Law School, CACJ and LACBA'S Criminal Justice Executive Committee.
This one is going to be interesting. Respected tennis referee Lois Goodman is charged with murdering her husband of 50 years with a coffee mug.
This is case is going to boil down to two issues: motive and evidence.
The alleged motive is that Goodman was having an online relationship with a man. The defense will argue that even if there was an online relationship, there are much easier ways to sever a relationship than committing murder. Also, it is a quantum leap to g...
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