Quote From: manofgoodsOnce again, you're still not getting the picture. You're still defending Brandi's actions. Why would the witnesses lie about certain things like that? He was in NO WAY abusive to her. There WERE independent witnesses that saw it. Plus, how can it be an accident when she ran over him & then tried to cover it up? That was NO accident. She ran over him, ran back home, stuck a tree branch in the windshield, lied to her parents about what really happened, and you still say that this was an accident? Come on. That's something a guilty person would do. Plus you said that if Brandi was afraid of Daniel, that she wouldn't filed a police report? Wrong. People who were really abused would do that. If he was so abusive that she claimed, then why in the heck would she go out to see him? I refuse to believe that this was an accident. Daniel's family & Stephanie would never lie about stuff like this. You're still falling for her lies about it being an accident & that she was abused, when the truth is slapped into your face. Even Dr. Phil knew that right in the interview with her, and he doesn't need lie detector tests for the witnesses. I'm still on Daniel's family side as well.
First of all, taking her parents' car and lying about it was wrong--but murder requires criminal intent, not juvenile stupidity. I don't deny that she directly killed Daniel with her parents' car. The question is, was it done deliberately?
Regardless of whether Daniel battered her or not, he is dead as a result of her hitting him. The abuse would not justify murder.
I have firsthand experience with abused women who identify with their batterer and do not call the police. My daughter went into labor with a black eye which she denied to the emergency room doctors in front of the police. That does not mean it did not happen. Sadly, it happens everyday. In this case, it is not especially relevant. What is relevant is, did she murder him or hit him by accident?
