Astor Jurors Sympathized With Man They Found Guilty
As horrible as the Astor trial looked from the outside, it was worse on the inside.
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As horrible as the Astor trial looked from the outside, it was worse on the inside.
Anthony and Charlene Marshall owe their lawyers up to 11 million; Philip Marshall says Charlene is the one who should go to jail.
Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann's rhetoric against the octogenarian was scathing, and damning.
During the final arguments of the Astor trial, defense lawyers make an inarguable point.
According to a nurse's testimony, the aging matriarch couldn't sleep over fears her son was trying to kill her — but was also lucid enough to issue some sage advice.
You know, that friend who always thinks the two of you are closer than you actually are.
But, to be fair, they are really AWESOME ones.
"She is killing him. She's f----- killing him," Astor's daughter-in-law ranted in 2001, according to a witness. "If [Anthony Marshall] dies before I do, I get nothing."
Also, she used to claim, Bill Clinton liked to hit on her.
Even though she herself testified that the aging doyenne was mentally infirm at the time she gave them.
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