I couldn't even understand her. I wasn't sure what she was saying to us. Here is a 19-year old girl with a 1-year old baby. I don't know how you even deal with that.

They're saying they expect to get back to us fairly soon. I think we still have some time. The deadlines have all been self-imposed. It's not the end of the game.

What we're saying is, 'Give us the opportunity to present our evidence on battering that the jury didn't hear.'

We kind of became his parents for that time, and he was great to have in the home — he followed all the rules, he always worked during the summer, he did whatever needed to be done.

He was here about a year before he moved in with me, and we were the sixth actual house he'd been in in a year's time.

Just like the old saying goes, "Vasser's boon-doggling again."