I went to the sentencing today. It was really difficult to hear Conrad Roy's sister speaking, I could hear more of his father, and one of the prosecutors read the mother's statement. I'll have to watch it on YouTube. I don't know why they didn't have microphones, throughout the trial, considering the interest of the national news. (I saw Erin Moriarty from 48 Hours and Andrea Canning from Dateline each time I went, and recognized but couldn't place others. Somebody from Inside Edition was outside recording a report...Inside Edition does this type of story? I thought they were a celebrity type show.) I had read that an aunt was going to read a statement, and the prosecutor I THINK said seven people wanted to make stataments, but they didn't fit the eligible criteria.
I thought the sentence was fair, and I was not at all surprised that the defense asked for and received a delay in serving her time pending the appeal, and I'm good with that. It's a precedent setting case, and this isn't the end of it.
Just watching the news, and I hate when they say "she showed little emotion." She was crying! She didn't fall apart, but I thought she showed plenty emotion under the circumstances.