INFAMOUS: Lizzie Borden
Crime Junkie
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The Inadmissibility of Lizzie's Lawyer's Work
Lizzie was given morphine as a sedative after everything had happened but before talking to police so her lawyers say you can't listen to anything she said. The entire testimony from that pharmacist about Lizzie trying to buy poison the day before the murder thrown out because get this it was ruled that the means of killing were two different poison versus axing somebody and because they didn't occur on the same day they said it was totally irrelevant both of those points seem bananas to me. If you're going to kill somebody just because you're trying a new method on the next day doesn't mean you didn't do it her lawyers were earning their money and so that entire thing got
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