Ash Kelley

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.

I mean, some of the things that they let out, they were gossipy, they were rumors, whatever.

For sure.

Not a lot of them would lead me to believe that somebody would do this to their daughter-in-law.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

It makes me think she's a bitch.

Right.

And that she's an unlikable and very untrustworthy person.

But there's also all the evidence of her guilt.

Yeah.

So with her appeal denied, Elizabeth's lawyer petitioned California's governor, Pat Brown, for clemency.

We've talked about Pat Brown before.

Mm-hmm.

At the time, he actually had expressed sympathy for those on death row, and he frequently sided with the anti-death penalty movement, particularly in the case of Carol Chessman, the so-called red light bandit.

We talked about that.

We talked about.