Nightmare might be a more apt description than story. You can view it here. I had no idea that adoptions from Pakistan were possible, so this was a bit of an education for me. I did some research and discovered that it is indeed possible — Christians can adopt babies born to Christian birthparents, while [...]

The jury returned the verdict in about two hours. Am I the only one thinking that handing the case to a jury at 2:30 on a Friday afternoon is a bad idea? At any rate, it would seem that they believed that Nathaniel did it to himself, but felt the Cravers should have been able [...]

Closing arguments are expected today in the trial of Michael and Nanette Craver. A little boy is dead, and that’s truly tragic. But I’m not convinced the parents killed him. I am glad I’m not sitting on the jury, because I don’t think there is any way to know for sure what happened. I think [...]

Yesterday’s testimony just served to cast that much more doubt on the prosecution’s expert. The York dispatch reports that the defense brought in an expert who disagreed with much of what the prosecution’s forensic pathologist testified to. The defense’s pathologist didn’t find signs of binding, said there were no tests showing Nathaniel was anemic, said [...]

Here is a report on yesterday’s testimony: http://www.yorkdispatch.com/ci_18884865 Some of you have made up your minds, others are in the same camp I’m in… I can see it happening both ways and I have no idea if the parents killed little Nathaniel, or if he self injured himself fatally. Four and a half years ago [...]

It sounds like the defense is pulling in some good experts. At least one of them basically saying the forensic psychologist was wrong when he said there was no evidence of FAS. http://www.yorkdispatch.com/ci_18875350?source=most_emailed I won’t quote this article, but it’s a must-read if you are interested in the case. There isn’t a whole lot of [...]