Katie, you ARE perfect!
I read this about Muhammad on CNN and wanted to choke:
"A six-page document filed last week on Muhammad's behalf put aside questions of guilt or about legal procedure, asking Millette to reduce the verdict.
The filing said the court should consider Muhammad "was born an innocent infant, then became a child and a man who was buffeted by crushing poverty, neglect and abuse, by war, and ultimately by the loss of his children and his marriage."
Prosecutors allege that Muhammad was motivated by the loss of his children in a bitter divorce with his wife, Mildred.
The court filing, by attorneys Peter Greenspun and Jonathan Shapiro, goes on to say that Muhammad was "a proud member of the ROTC" and served in the Louisiana and Oregon national guards and the U.S. Army. They said he had no previous criminal record
The filing also said that the state would be wrong to sanction another killing and that it would serve only to make Muhammad's children fatherless."
