Ashleigh Merchant

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547 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 28 Jul

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The Megyn Kelly Show · Hawaii Doc Gerhardt Konig's Appeal, Ebony Parker Case Dismissed - "The MK True Crime Show" with Dave Aronberg, Phil Holloway, and Ashleigh Merchant · 30 May 2026 podcast

And yet he portrayed himself as a victim and he was found guilty of manslaughter because the jurors didn't think that he had the intent to kill her.

That's a problem, though.

Well-

As a former prosecutor, normally, I just say, eh, jurors have a lot of leeway, a lot of discretion, and even if they get certain things wrong, you just say, hey, that's the jury process.

But when it comes to an element of the crime here, manslaughter and murder

both require an intent to kill someone.

The difference is that manslaughter, you're under extreme emotional distress.

It's like the situation where you find someone in bed with your wife and you pull out a shotgun and kill them.

That's manslaughter, not necessarily murder.

I think we all had a better perspective after reading the instructions.

And they do get a lot of discretion in there, and you generally don't overturn a case because jurors were confused.

But, I mean, I'd love to get your thoughts, Ashley, because as a defense lawyer, even though you don't want—

that your attorneys and your clients have talked to jurors

the juror, had a fundamental misunderstanding of the law and voted to convict on intent and manslaughter, even though that does require an intent to kill someone.

So shouldn't that be enough for an appeal?

Well, maybe, maybe not.

It's complicated, as the kids like to say on Facebook.

But I do think it raises legitimate questions that now puts a question mark at the end of this verdict.

You say it's your greatest nightmare as a defense lawyer.

It was prosecutor's greatest nightmare when I was at the state attorney's office where the jurors come out and they say, yeah, you know, I'm writing a book about this.

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