The Constitution says that it is the electoral college that determines who is the president. It leaves no doubt.

On one hand it's a way to raise reasonable doubt, arguing other people had motive to kill her. On the other hand, there is a dead woman and the real danger is that the jury may sympathize with the victim and turn around on the defendant and defense counsel.

A trial is like a jig-saw puzzle and closing argument is when the lawyers put the pieces together.

No other state would impose this kind of sentence.

This is a docket that already has an extraordinary number of potential blockbuster cases. It will give us an early sense of who John Roberts is.

You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.