Michael George Trial Winds Down

A directed verdict in the Michael George trial could come as early as today, according to coverage which has expanded past the always-excellent Macomb Daily News to include publications in the retailer's current home area of Somerset County, Pennsylvania. George, a prominent Pennsylvania retailer and con organizer, is on trial for charges stemming from the slaying of his then-wife Barabara in George's then-store in Michigan. Prosecutors built a case whereby George returned from his mother's home -- the basis of his alibi -- to the store and killed George in order to be more romantically free and to cash in on a six-figure insurance claim. Defense attorneys entered into evidence discussion of a potential robber lurking around the store brought to Barbara George's attention before her murder, although the prosecutors hit several points of that story hard in their cross-examination.

It looks to me like a classic case of damning yet largely circumstantial evidence pushed by prosecutors while defense attorney focus on the lack of physical evidence, which would be supported by a request for a directed verdict.
 
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