Ash Kelley

Yeah.

I can't perjure myself that this is what happened.

So it's like this isn't out of nowhere.

It's not like they're just like, yeah, you're a bitch and you have a weird, unnatural attraction to your son.

Yes.

So we're going to pretend that you're a murderer.

Like there was evidence.

But I do understand that they're saying like.

The case could have been tighter, I think.

The case definitely could have been tighter.

But I really do think a lot of it had to do with Olga having been eight months pregnant.

Absolutely.

If I was sitting on that jury, that would absolutely factor into my decision making.

How could it not?

Yeah.

So after sentencing, Elizabeth's lawyer petitioned the court for a new trial.

Obviously, that always happens.

At appeal, the defense argued, among other things, that the jury had been prejudiced by all the news coverage and that Elizabeth hadn't got a fair trial.

In the spring of 1960, the California Court of Appeals heard the case, and after reviewing the evidence and hearing testimony, they concluded that the prosecution and the trial court had followed standard procedure with regard to the jury and that the judge was well within his rights to deny the request to move the trial.

There you go.