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The trial of Molly Martens

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,763 ✭✭✭monkeybutter


    have you figured out how court cases go, prosecution makes a defendant look bad, defense makes defendant good

    The defense will try and do anything to win, including calling witnesses who will make misleading statements even false ones, the prosecution has a vested interest in not doing this, the defense does not

    all you did was jump all over what the defense said, no thought for context

    nothing martens says can be taken at face value because she has been proven to be a liar

    she accidentally left phones on so people could hear arguments, had been recording for months, had feck all from that, destroyed the other evidences and recordings

    had motive

    made sure he was dead using a block/paving slab

    tried to keep the kids in the states after the fact, like madness



  • Registered Users Posts: 40,099 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    It's objectively false to say there was a domestic abuse situation here nothing substantive supports it.

    It's your opinion there is nothing here to support it.

    But the only opinion that matters ultimately is the Sentencing Judge.

    In my opinion given the evidence presented in the past week and a bit, I think the defence have done enough to at least convince the Judge that the possibility existed it was an abusive relationship.

    I think that would be a reasonable assumption held by anyone that has followed the hearing.

    But again I could be completely wrong, we should know by Friday though, if this goes into week 3 it will be officially longer then the first trial AFAIK.



  • Registered Users Posts: 55,600 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    A possibility of about 1 percent is all this is.

    Nowhere near a real possibility for any half-educated person to realize that the defence are utterly desperate.

    She murdered him not because he was abusive, and not because she was defending her life. And no minuscule amount of “possibility” changes that. And nor will the judge’s judgement change that.

    Post edited by walshb on


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,763 ✭✭✭monkeybutter


    The evidence is still ongoing

    and today has done a lot to undo the work the defense did, it wasnt that hard



  • Registered Users Posts: 33,931 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Can you point to evidence physical , witness or otherwise that would warrant the reasonable opinion.

    I've yet to see you provide any based on what we've all read from the trial so far.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 55,600 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    There is no reasonable evidence whatsoever to back up any of Molly’s claims. All lies. But of course, folks will hide behind “you can’t prove she’s lying about ‘everything’”



  • Registered Users Posts: 40,099 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    A judge would take the recorded testimony(s) of a defendant and then compare that to corroborating evidence.

    Listen I feeling you are just going to blindly dismiss whatever I tell you, so Séan Whelan who has been excellent throughout this, u have a pretty decent summarisation of the hearing so far.

    That was filed Sunday, the only real thing we have learned since then is the Prosecution cannot find one doctor in America who will state his first wife died from an Asthma attack.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,175 ✭✭✭Be right back


    I wouldn't expect boggles to either. It was the exact same in the Harry and Meghan forum.



  • Registered Users Posts: 33,931 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    I asked you a very specific question.

    What evidence of domestic abuse physical, witness statements or otherwise did you find that would make your assertion that domestic abuse was occurring as you put it a valid viewpoint.


    Be specific, don't link articles that don't provide me with your opinion.

    I gave you mine.

    My opinion is you have no physical evidence and are relying on a couple of seconds of raised voices.


    So , over to you



  • Registered Users Posts: 9,805 ✭✭✭take everything


    Excellent reporting?

    He calls the tape corroborating evidence. It's not corroboration of anything.

    The absence of numerous of her other tapes might, however, be corroboration that raising his voice a bit when interrupted (in a scenario controlled by her for the tape) was the worst things got.

    That journalist says "the tape in no way justifies the killing". Is this guy serious.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 40,099 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    So you didn't read it?

    The article broadly aligns with my opinion, in respect to the audio recording.

    But on Thursday the court heard a secret recording, made by Molly Martens Corbett in the kitchen dining area of the family home on Shrove Tuesday 2015, six months before Mr Corbett’s killing.

    For the first time the court heard the voice of the victim and his wife.

    And his two children, 10-year-old Jack and eight-year-old Sarah.

    Arguing, bickering, occasionally shouting - all four of them were involved.

    There was no cursing, no violence; it was not a particularly out-of-the-ordinary family dispute.

    But it was strong corroborating evidence for a lot of other evidence and statements heard by the court.

    The other evidence and statements he talked about is contained within, but to summarise.

    The Children's Interviews

    The emergency code words.

    5 Neighbours testimony.

    Doctors

    Social Worker testimony.

    It's all in the article.

    Séan has been there for every second of the hearing.



  • Registered Users Posts: 33,931 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    As I thought.

    No physical evidence.

    A couple of seconds of a tape.

    Coached kids by molly who were told things would be trouble as kids do.

    Neighbours ? No neighbours said there was domestic abuse.

    Paid 'doctors' this week which extremely common in the US.


    As I've always assumed contrary. You've no interest in evidence just assertions.



  • Registered Users Posts: 55,600 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Corroborated what? Her tales/lies to pals?The tape was a nothing. There is no reasonable/clear evidence to suggest Jason was an abusive husband.



  • Registered Users Posts: 40,099 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    But the only opinion that matters ultimately is the Sentencing Judge.

    In my opinion given the evidence presented in the past week and a bit, I think the defence have done enough to at least convince the Judge that the possibility existed it was an abusive relationship.

    I think that would be a reasonable assumption held by anyone that has followed the hearing.

    If I am wrong with the above I'll be the first to hold my hands up.

    I assume that will be reciprocated?



  • Registered Users Posts: 33,931 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Reciprocated what ?

    You've presented nothing substantial.


    I've stated the American judicial system is a joke. There's ample history of same.


    I firmly believe this 'trial' is predetermined.


    You'll pretend you won something. For what end sure who knows only you.


    A father was stolen from his children by a manipulative narcissist who will probably go off to ruin someone else's life in future.



  • Registered Users Posts: 55,600 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Hold on, no matter what the judge says will not prove one bit if Jason was an abusive husband.

    Jason is dead. He cannot counter the allegations put forward by the defense claiming him to have been an abusive husband.

    You keep mentioning possibilities. Yes, I will concede that there is a possibility that Jason was an abusive/threatening husband, same way this possibility pretty much always exists; but from all that I have read, this possibility is miniscule, as it is coming from a scumbag who murdered her husband, and a scumbag that has been shown to lie again and again.

    So, there are plenty people who do not find her claims that Jason was abusive to be at all a reasonable possibility. Miniscule at best!



  • Registered Users Posts: 40,099 ✭✭✭✭Boggles




  • Registered Users Posts: 33,931 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    So magnanimous.


    We'll send on a trophy.



  • Registered Users Posts: 55,600 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Hold your hands up to what? The judge isn't giving some exact and definitive real answer as regards whether or not Jason was an "abusive" husband.......society cannot even agree fully on what abuse actually is. It's a very diluted/subjective discussion



  • Registered Users Posts: 40,099 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    society cannot even agree fully on what abuse actually is

    Maybe in the 70s but I think society has a pretty good grasp of it now.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 55,600 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Really. so what is it, and specifically, what is it that Jason did (according to a liar's tales)

    The tape.....some raised voices.....is that the silver bullet?

    It's like you want it to be true so much and are clinging to Molly's tales/lies to make it true.....

    It's very far from being proved to be true, though. Most people know this, think this



  • Registered Users Posts: 40,099 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Have you read the transcripts of the children's interviews, specifically Jacks?

    Belting your wife was domestic abuse even in the 70s. Although in this country legal as was raping your wife.

    They were crazy bleak times, particularly for women and children, but the point is "society" particularly in Ireland are acutely aware what abuse and coercive control is and looks like.



  • Registered Users Posts: 55,600 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Are the children to this day maintaining that their father was an abusive husband (wife beater)?

    Both interviews were recanted by the children almost immediately after they returned to Limerick. 

    interviews given when in sole custody of Molly.

    serious clutching from you, Boggles. No idea why you keep wanting to push this “he was an abuser” agenda. Or at the very least, you want to give Molly's claims real credence



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,876 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    This is the level of quality of evidence being put forward by the defence


    A US court has heard that the extreme injuries Jason Corbett sustained were “a measure of how terrified Molly Martens and her father were” on the night he was beaten to death.


    Scott Hampton, the director of Ending the Violence, an organisation based in Dover, New Hampshire, that provides education classes to perpetrators of domestic and sexual violence, gave evidence on Tuesday, the Irish Examiner reports.

    The judge had to call for order during the day's proceedings after loud gasps from those present in court over evidence Dr Hampton gave regarding Mr Corbett's injuries.

    When asked by the prosecutor if Mr Corbett's injuries looked like reasonable force, Dr Hampton replied: “It is a measure of how terrified Molly and Tom were.”

    what an utter pile of complete bollox

    - it could just as easily be a measure of how Tom Martens hated his son in law, something he’s previously admitted to a work colleague and also a measure of how much Molly resented him not handing legal joint responsibility for the kids to her.

    FFS



  • Registered Users Posts: 55,600 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Like I said, what he said on the stand is disgusting.



  • Registered Users Posts: 40,099 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    The judge has already stated that childrens interviews were honest narration of fact.

    The idea that children can't be honest narrators of fact particular interviewed by specialists is another trope from the 70s, one largely used by the Catholic Church.



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,876 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    The irony is, the Supreme Court over turned the previous conviction to allow the defence to spew this type of bolloxology



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    Can we talk about the code word thing for a moment?

    Again Im just coming at this from "what is a logical thing to do?". If my niece or grad daughter or someone I cared about was in a suspected abusive environment, the only number I would be giving them is 999 (911 in the US). That, or I would just take them out of the situation.

    It doesnt make sense to me.



  • Registered Users Posts: 55,600 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    So why were the statements recanted? Are the children maintaining to this day that their father was a wife beater abusive husband? Yes or no? If children are to be so believed, as you’re trying to suggest (with the judge), are you saying the children today are to be believed?

    again, it’s clear to any half-educated person that they were absolutely coached by Molly, and today we know the truth as regards Jason’s children’s views



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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,175 ✭✭✭Be right back


    Nor does it make sense that her mum would simply go back to sleep after hearing screaming from upstairs.



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