“Please get me out of this.” As the deputy pulled her toward the holding cell, Hall yelled, “Your honor, I am not guilty. You need to let me go home. You need to let me go home.”

Um, Laura, we aren’t discussing whether or not you are guilty or innocent anymore. Your guilt in the matter has already been determined. You decided to complain about your five year sentence for helping your boyfriend chop up his murder victim’s dead body and then driving him to Mexico, so now you’ve gotten your wish and you will be re-sentenced, and you may not be so lucky to get a mere five years this time around. No matter what sentence you get, you will still and forever be guilty of helping someone chop up the body of someone he killed.

What really gets my goat are people who insist she should get off easy, because she “only” tampered with evidence. Look, it’s not like she hid the murder weapon or wiped off some fingerprints from a doorknob. She helped someone chop up a dead body. Sure, that still falls under the realm of tampering with evidence, but in my world, chopping up the dead body of your boyfriend’s murder victim and then running off to Mexico with him is just about as antisocial and psychotic as murdering someone. Anyone who thinks that’s a crime someone should get off lightly for –since she was a good student and had never been in trouble with the law before– needs to have their own head examined.

I might go check out the re-sentencing trial, if I have the time. Not that I especially seek out gruesome train wrecks to watch, but her lawyer is Joe James Sawyer, and I love seeing him in action. As embarrassing as it is to admit it, I am a lawyer groupie.