Mary Maloney

In my opening statement, I mentioned that the murder of Mary Maloney’s husband was premeditated. Based off of my evidence and witnesses, I have now proved that statement. First degree murder has four elements: intent, deliberation, willfulness, and of course, premeditation. My first piece of evidence, the letter left by Patrick’s fiancée, shows that Mary had a reason for feeling angry with her husband. After reading the letter, she had a fair amount of time to plot the murder. This is why she handed Patrick a drink as soon as he walked into their home. She wanted him to be easier to kill and completely defenseless.
Next, the audio tape of Mrs. Maloney rehearsing in the bathroom, shows her premeditation and deliberation. It portrays how she
Here, the defense presents us two contradicting arguments. The fact that Mary Maloney is under treatment of psychosis but she still had an anger outburst during the murder does not quite fit correctly with the statement that Mrs. Maloney was unaware of her actions. However, as I previously stated, if Mary’s emotions were this unstable, she would have had a similar outbreak sometime earlier with this big of a reaction. Maybe she would have had a reaction the night before, after finding the letter. What we have to ask each other is why? Why did she only take action that night? Ladies and gentleman, I have an answer for that question. After finding the letter, Mary planned out her tactic in killing her husband. After carrying out her plans, she blamed the deliberation on her
The lamb DNA also proves that Mary forcefully feeding the cops the lamb meat had a reason behind it. She would not have gone through all of this trouble to feed the cops the murder weapon. She could have done plenty of other things with the weapon such as throwing it away or hiding it. However, because she clearly was thinking straight, she decided to get rid of it with a foolproof plan. Mary Maloney decided to cook it to get rid of her fingerprints and the weapon